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title = "{I}talian Medical Term Simplification: From Patient Information Leaflets to Simplified Language Resources",
author = "di Buono, Maria Pia",
editor = "Gupta, Deepak and
Thompson, Paul and
Ananiadou, Sophia and
Demner-Fushman, Dina",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Patient-Oriented Language Processing ({CL}4{H}ealth) @ {LREC} 2026",
month = may,
year = "2026",
address = "Palma, Mallorca (Spain)",
publisher = "ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.cl4health-1.17/",
doi = "10.63317/27j5nmzxz6u7",
pages = "182--189",
abstract = "Terminological simplification in patient information leaflets (PILs) is implemented through a variety of linguistic strategies. Although these strategies help improve text comprehensibility, their overall impact remains limited. The complexity of PILs is still influenced by multiple factors, including frequent cross-referential terminology, the presence of subordinate clauses, lengthy sentences, and the use of domain-specific terms. This paper introduces I-MTS (Italian Medical Term Simplification), the first resource specifically developed for medical term simplification in Italian. I-MTS is designed to support research on lexical simplification and to facilitate the automatic adaptation of medical texts for non-expert audiences, thereby enhancing the readability and accessibility of health information in Italian."
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Markdown (Informal)
[Italian Medical Term Simplification: From Patient Information Leaflets to Simplified Language Resources](https://aclanthology.org/2026.cl4health-1.17/) (di Buono, CL4Health 2026)
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