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Brigada Villa, Luca and
Forlano, Marco and
Coschignano, Serena and
Barcellini, Amelia and
Luraghi, Silvia and
Leone, Alberto Giovanni and
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%T Towards Inclusive Communication in Cancer Prevention and Treatment: A Case Study on Italian Informational Materials
%A Cassani, Chiara
%A Brigada Villa, Luca
%A Forlano, Marco
%A Coschignano, Serena
%A Barcellini, Amelia
%A Luraghi, Silvia
%A Leone, Alberto Giovanni
%A Zanchi, Chiara
%A Lovotti, Adalberto
%Y Danilova, Vera
%Y Kurfalı, Murathan
%Y Söderfeldt, Ylva
%Y Reed, Julia
%Y Burchell, Andrew
%S Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Linguistic Analysis for Health (HeaLing 2026)
%D 2026
%8 March
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Rabat, Morocco
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%F cassani-etal-2026-towards
%X This paper presents an annotation scheme developed to analyze linguisticaccessibility and inclusivity in Italian cancer-related informational materials.The scheme combines metadata annotation, qualitative analysis of textual andvisual features, and automatically extracted measures of linguistic complexitycapturing structural, lexical, and probabilistic properties of the texts. Abrief case study demonstrates how the proposed framework can be applied tocompare documents and identify different sources of linguistic difficulty. Theapproach provides a replicable methodological basis for large-scale analyses ofhealth communication materials.
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Markdown (Informal)
[Towards Inclusive Communication in Cancer Prevention and Treatment: A Case Study on Italian Informational Materials](https://aclanthology.org/2026.healing-1.24/) (Cassani et al., HeaLing 2026)
ACL
- Chiara Cassani, Luca Brigada Villa, Marco Forlano, Serena Coschignano, Amelia Barcellini, Silvia Luraghi, Alberto Giovanni Leone, Chiara Zanchi, and Adalberto Lovotti. 2026. Towards Inclusive Communication in Cancer Prevention and Treatment: A Case Study on Italian Informational Materials. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Linguistic Analysis for Health (HeaLing 2026), pages 277–283, Rabat, Morocco. Association for Computational Linguistics.