Approaches to text simplification : can computer technologies outdo a human mind?
Narrowly specialized information is addressed to a limited circle of professionals though it provokes interest among people without specialized education. This gives rise to a need for the popularization of scientific information. This process is carried out through simplified texts as a kind of...
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Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2021
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/18122/1/42792-164846-5-PB.pdf http://journalarticle.ukm.my/18122/ https://ejournal.ukm.my/gema/issue/view/1417 |
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| Summary: | Narrowly specialized information is addressed to a limited circle of professionals though it
provokes interest among people without specialized education. This gives rise to a need for the
popularization of scientific information. This process is carried out through simplified texts as
a kind of secondary texts that are directly aimed at the addressee. Age, language proficiency
and background knowledge are the main features which are usually taken into consideration
by the author of the secondary text who makes changes in the text composition, as well as in
its pragmatics, semantics and syntax. This article analyses traditional approaches to text
simplification, computer simplification and summarization. The authors compare humanauthored
simplification of literary texts with the newest trends in computer simplification to
promote further development of machine simplification tools. It has been found that the
samples of simplified scientific texts seem to be more natural than the samples of simplified
literary texts since technical background knowledge can be processed with machine tools. The
authors have come to the conclusion that literary and technical texts should imply different
approaches for adaptation and simplification. In addition, personal readers’ experience plays a
great part in finding the implications in literary texts. In this respect it might be reasonable to
create separate engines for simplifying and adapting texts from diverse spheres of knowledge. |
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