@inproceedings{alonzo-etal-2022-dataset,
title = "A Dataset of Word-Complexity Judgements from Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Adults for Text Simplification",
author = "Alonzo, Oliver and
Lee, Sooyeon and
Maddela, Mounica and
Xu, Wei and
Huenerfauth, Matt",
editor = "{\v{S}}tajner, Sanja and
Saggion, Horacio and
Ferr{\'e}s, Daniel and
Shardlow, Matthew and
Sheang, Kim Cheng and
North, Kai and
Zampieri, Marcos and
Xu, Wei",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility, and Readability (TSAR-2022)",
month = dec,
year = "2022",
address = "Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Virtual)",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.tsar-1.11",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.tsar-1.11",
pages = "119--124",
abstract = "Research has explored the use of automatic text simplification (ATS), which consists of techniques to make text simpler to read, to provide reading assistance to Deaf and Hard-of-hearing (DHH) adults with various literacy levels. Prior work in this area has identified interest in and benefits from ATS-based reading assistance tools. However, no prior work on ATS has gathered judgements from DHH adults as to what constitutes complex text. Thus, following approaches in prior NLP work, this paper contributes new word-complexity judgements from 11 DHH adults on a dataset of 15,000 English words that had been previously annotated by L2 speakers, which we also augmented to include automatic annotations of linguistic characteristics of the words. Additionally, we conduct a supplementary analysis of the interaction effect between the linguistic characteristics of the words and the groups of annotators. This analysis highlights the importance of collecting judgements from DHH adults for training ATS systems, as it revealed statistically significant interaction effects for nearly all of the linguistic characteristics of the words.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T A Dataset of Word-Complexity Judgements from Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Adults for Text Simplification
%A Alonzo, Oliver
%A Lee, Sooyeon
%A Maddela, Mounica
%A Xu, Wei
%A Huenerfauth, Matt
%Y Štajner, Sanja
%Y Saggion, Horacio
%Y Ferrés, Daniel
%Y Shardlow, Matthew
%Y Sheang, Kim Cheng
%Y North, Kai
%Y Zampieri, Marcos
%Y Xu, Wei
%S Proceedings of the Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility, and Readability (TSAR-2022)
%D 2022
%8 December
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Virtual)
%F alonzo-etal-2022-dataset
%X Research has explored the use of automatic text simplification (ATS), which consists of techniques to make text simpler to read, to provide reading assistance to Deaf and Hard-of-hearing (DHH) adults with various literacy levels. Prior work in this area has identified interest in and benefits from ATS-based reading assistance tools. However, no prior work on ATS has gathered judgements from DHH adults as to what constitutes complex text. Thus, following approaches in prior NLP work, this paper contributes new word-complexity judgements from 11 DHH adults on a dataset of 15,000 English words that had been previously annotated by L2 speakers, which we also augmented to include automatic annotations of linguistic characteristics of the words. Additionally, we conduct a supplementary analysis of the interaction effect between the linguistic characteristics of the words and the groups of annotators. This analysis highlights the importance of collecting judgements from DHH adults for training ATS systems, as it revealed statistically significant interaction effects for nearly all of the linguistic characteristics of the words.
%R 10.18653/v1/2022.tsar-1.11
%U https://aclanthology.org/2022.tsar-1.11
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2022.tsar-1.11
%P 119-124
Markdown (Informal)
[A Dataset of Word-Complexity Judgements from Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Adults for Text Simplification](https://aclanthology.org/2022.tsar-1.11) (Alonzo et al., TSAR 2022)
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