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    Revisiting the Readability Assessment of Texts in Portuguese

    The Web content accessibility guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 include in its principle of comprehensibility an accessibility requirement related to the level of writing. This requirement states that websites with texts ...

    Carolina Scarton, Caroline Gasperin in Advances in Artificial Intelligence – IBER… (2010)

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    Challenging Choices for Text Simplification

    In this paper we discuss particular choices we made during the development of a rule-based syntactic text simplification system. Such choices concern 1) how to deal with adverbial phrases in order to simplify ...

    Caroline Gasperin, Erick Maziero in Computational Processing of the Portuguese… (2010)

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    Natural Language Processing in aid of FlyBase curators

    Despite increasing interest in applying Natural Language Processing (NLP) to biomedical text, whether this technology can facilitate tasks such as database curation remains unclear.

    Nikiforos Karamanis, Ruth Seal, Ian Lewin, Peter McQuilton in BMC Bioinformatics (2008)

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    Syntactic-Based Methods for Measuring Word Similarity

    This paper explores different strategies for extracting similarity relations between words from partially parsed text corpora. The strategies we have analysed do not require supervised training nor semanticinf...

    Pablo Gamallo, Caroline Gasperin, Alexandre Agustini in Text, Speech and Dialogue (2001)