| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/L50105/01 |
| Title: |
PSET: PRACTICAL SIMPLIFICATION OF ENGLISH TEXT |
| Principal Investigator: |
Tait, Dr JI |
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| Department: |
Computing Engineering and Technology |
| Organisation: |
University of Sunderland |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
04 August 1997 |
Ends: |
03 August 2000 |
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185,461
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Human Communication in ICT |
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Improved access to written language on the information superhighway has been identified as a priority by both the Technology Foresight Programme and the Call for the EPSRC Speech and Language Programme. One barrier to accessing written material on the World Wide Web (WWW) - and the Information Superhighway more generally - is that most of the written material is in English, often employing an extensive vocabulary and a sophisticated style which may make the text difficult or impossible to understand for people for whom English is a foreign language in which they are not fluent, or for people who have language difficulties. We propose to help widen access to the Information Superhighway by building a computer system which takes in English (newspaper ) text across the WWW and outputs a simplified version with a broadly similar meaning with, for example, uncommon or unusual words replaced with more common of familiar synonyms and difficult to follow syntactic constructs replaced with simpler ones (e.g. passive to active). We will also evaluate the utility of the system in a practical situation (with people suffering from aphasia which impairs their comprehension of written English) and make appropriate tools developed in the course of the project available to the wider Speech.
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http://www.sund.ac.uk |