Automatic Text Simplification

Interface of capito digital with a source and an automatically simplified text

In the area of automatic processing of simplified language, the focus of our chair is on technologies that take into account the heterogeneity of the target groups. Linguistic and special education research has shown simplified language to be located on several levels of complexity (Kellermann, 2014). To date, this finding has found little attention in research on automatic text simplification (Kew and Ebling, 2022; Spring et al., 2021). Here, with multilingual machine translation models (Johnson et al., 2017), a conceptual model exists for how multiple language levels can be captured (Rios et al., 2021; Spring et al., 2022; Spring et al., 2023).

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Inclusive Information and Communication Technologies (IICT)

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IICT is a four-year project with an overall budget of 12.3 million CHF supported by the Swiss Innovation Agency (Innosuisse) under its flagship scheme. The goal of the IICT flagship is to develop information and communication technologies (ICT) in the context of persons with disabilities. The flagship targets five applications: text simplification, sign language translation, sign language assessment, audio description, and spoken subtitles.