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title = "A Customizable Editor for Text Simplification",
author = "Lee, John and
Zhao, Wenlong and
Xie, Wenxiu",
editor = "Watanabe, Hideo",
booktitle = "Proceedings of {COLING} 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations",
month = dec,
year = "2016",
address = "Osaka, Japan",
publisher = "The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/C16-2020",
pages = "93--97",
abstract = "We present a browser-based editor for simplifying English text. Given an input sentence, the editor performs both syntactic and lexical simplification. It splits a complex sentence into shorter ones, and suggests word substitutions in drop-down lists. The user can choose the best substitution from the list, undo any inappropriate splitting, and further edit the sentence as necessary. A significant novelty is that the system accepts a customized vocabulary list for a target reader population. It identifies all words in the text that do not belong to the list, and attempts to substitute them with words from the list, thus producing a text tailored for the targeted readers.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T A Customizable Editor for Text Simplification
%A Lee, John
%A Zhao, Wenlong
%A Xie, Wenxiu
%Y Watanabe, Hideo
%S Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations
%D 2016
%8 December
%I The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee
%C Osaka, Japan
%F lee-etal-2016-customizable
%X We present a browser-based editor for simplifying English text. Given an input sentence, the editor performs both syntactic and lexical simplification. It splits a complex sentence into shorter ones, and suggests word substitutions in drop-down lists. The user can choose the best substitution from the list, undo any inappropriate splitting, and further edit the sentence as necessary. A significant novelty is that the system accepts a customized vocabulary list for a target reader population. It identifies all words in the text that do not belong to the list, and attempts to substitute them with words from the list, thus producing a text tailored for the targeted readers.
%U https://aclanthology.org/C16-2020
%P 93-97
Markdown (Informal)
[A Customizable Editor for Text Simplification](https://aclanthology.org/C16-2020) (Lee et al., COLING 2016)
ACL
- John Lee, Wenlong Zhao, and Wenxiu Xie. 2016. A Customizable Editor for Text Simplification. In Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations, pages 93–97, Osaka, Japan. The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee.