This paper describes our ongoing research project on text simplification for congenitally deaf people. Text simplification we are aiming at is the task of offering a deaf reader a syntactic and lexical paraphrase of a given text for assisting her/him to understand what it means. In this paper, we discuss the issues we should address to realize text simplification and report on the present results in three different aspects of this task: readability assessment, paraphrase representation and post-transfer error detection.
REF proposed a rule-based system for text simplification aimed at deaf people.
Text Simplification For Reading Assistance: A Project Note
International Workshop On Paraphrasing IWP
Computer Science