Search results for " simplification"

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Design, development and validation of a system for automatic help to medical text understanding

2020

Abstract Objective The paper presents a web-based application, SIMPLE, that facilitates medical text comprehension by identifying the health-related terms of a medical text and providing the corresponding consumer terms and explanations. Background The comprehension of a medical text is often a difficult task for laypeople because it requires semantic abilities that can differ from a person to another, depending on his/her health-literacy level. Some systems have been developed for facilitating the comprehension of medical texts through text simplification, either syntactical or lexical. The ones dealing with lexical simplification usually replace the original text and do not provide additi…

Lexical simplification020205 medical informaticsComputer scienceText simplificationmedia_common.quotation_subjectHealth Informatics02 engineering and technologycomputer.software_genreConsumer health vocabulary; e-health; Infobutton; Lexical simplification; Patient empowerment; Term familiarity03 medical and health sciencesAutomationUser-Computer Interface0302 clinical medicineterm familiarity0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineeringInformation retrievalWeb applicationHumansinfobutton030212 general & internal medicineSimplicitySet (psychology)media_commonSettore ING-INF/05 - Sistemi Di Elaborazione Delle Informazionie-health; Patient empowerment; Lexical simplification; Consumer health vocabulary; Term familiarity; InfobuttonSettore INF/01 - Informaticabusiness.industrylexical simplificationReproducibility of Resultspatient empowermentHealth LiteracySemanticsWorld Wide WebComprehensionIdentification (information)Healthconsumer health vocabularyObjective teste-healthArtificial intelligencePatient ParticipationbusinesscomputerGoalsNatural language processingInternational Journal of Medical Informatics, 138 . ISSN 1386-5056
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Towards text simplification for poor readers with intellectual disability: When do connectives enhance text cohesion?

2013

Abstract Cohesive elements of texts such as connectives (e.g., but, in contrast) are expected to facilitate inferential comprehension in poor readers. Two experiments tested this prediction in poor readers with intellectual disability (ID) by: (a) comparing literal and inferential text comprehension of texts with and without connectives and/or high frequency content words (Experiment 1) and (b) exploring the effects of type and familiarity of connectives on two-clause text comprehension by means of a cloze task (Experiment 2). Neither the addition of high frequency content words nor connectives in general produced inferential comprehension improvements. However, although readers with ID wer…

MaleAdolescentText simplificationTeaching methodSpecial educationDyslexiaYoung AdultIntellectual DisabilityIntellectual disabilityDevelopmental and Educational PsychologymedicineHumansChildRecognition Psychologymedicine.diseaseLinguisticsEducation of Intellectually DisabledCohesion (linguistics)ComprehensionClinical PsychologyWord lists by frequencyReading comprehensionCase-Control StudiesFemaleComprehensionPsychologyResearch in Developmental Disabilities
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Legislative provisions in context: a linguistic approach

2016

The paper takes into consideration legislative provisions from a linguistic point of view. It applies tests of language in a number of texts belonging to the common law drafting practice to ascertain a loss of conceptual focus by legislative drafters and concludes that linguistics can provide a method by which drafters can assess the effectiveness of their draft.

Point (typography)Discourse legislative drafting simplification strategies communicative context(s)Common lawContext (language use)LegislatureSociologyLawLinguisticsSettore L-LIN/12 - Lingua E Traduzione - Lingua IngleseFocus (linguistics)
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A Neural Network model for the Evaluation of Text Complexity in Italian Language: a Representation Point of View

2018

Abstract The goal of a text simplification system (TS) is to create a new text suited to the characteristics of a reader, with the final goal of making it more understandable.The building of an Automatic Text Simplification System (ATS) cannot be separated from a correct evaluation of the text complexity. In fact the ATS must be capable of understanding if a text should be simplified for the target reader or not. In a previous work we have presented a model capable of classifying Italian sentences based on their complexity level. Our model is a Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) Neural Network capable of learning the features of easy-to-read and complex-to-read sentences autonomously from a anno…

Scheme (programming language)Text simplificationComputer science02 engineering and technologycomputer.software_genreEvaluation Sentence ComplexityText Simplification0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineeringWord2vecRepresentation (mathematics)General Environmental Sciencecomputer.programming_languageNatural Language Processing060201 languages & linguisticsDeep Neural NetworksArtificial neural networkPoint (typography)business.industry06 humanities and the artsDeep Neural NetworksEvaluation Sentence ComplexityNatural Language ProcessingSentence ClassificationText SimplificationSentence Classification0602 languages and literatureComputingMethodologies_DOCUMENTANDTEXTPROCESSINGGeneral Earth and Planetary Sciences020201 artificial intelligence & image processingArtificial intelligencebusinesscomputerFeature learningNatural language processingSentence
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La semplificazione normativa e il PNRR

2023

The monograph studies the regulatory simplification policy programmed by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, analyzing its elements of novelty compared to policies already undertaken in the country and its relevance in the context of Plan implementation. It then considers the regulatory measures being taken to implement the said policy, questioning whether genuine simplification is being achieved.

Settore IUS/08 - Diritto CostituzionaleNational recovery and resilience plan regulatory simplification measures relevance in the context of the Plan implementation critical issues
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Un seminario su semplificazione e appalti pubblici

2020

Si tratta di un abstract relativo a un convegno sulla semplificazione amministrativa. It is an abstract of a conference on administrative simplification.

Settore IUS/10 - Diritto Amministrativosemplificazione amministrativaadministrative simplification
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Ancora sulle "esplosive palatali" nelle inchieste dell'Atlante Linguistico del Mediterraneo (ALM): i punti albanesi

2021

Tra i «Problemi redazionali» emersi in fase di controllo e organizzazione dei materiali giunti dalla campagna di rilevamenti dell’Atlante Linguistico del Mediterraneo (ALM), Berruto (1971-1973) rileva la proliferazione e l’eterogeneità di alcune scelte grafemiche operate da diversi raccoglitori che, impegnati in una trascrizione più o meno puntuale delle risposte ottenute, avevano interpretato e risolto variamente alcune delle indicazioni previste nel sistema di trascrizione fonetica che accompagnava il Questionario. Particolarmente complesso era emerso il quadro relativo alla trascrizione di alcune consonanti del settore “palatale”, per le quali i grafemi (e i foni a essi corrispondenti) p…

Settore L-FIL-LET/12 - Linguistica ItalianaAmong the «Editorial problems» that emerged during the control and organization of the materials coming from the survey campaign of the Atlante Linguistico del Mediterraneo (ALM) Berruto (1971-1973) notes the proliferation and heterogeneity of some graphemic choices made by different field researchers. As they were engaged in a more or less punctual transcription of the answers obtained they had interpreted and solved differently some of the directions provided in the phonetic transcription system that accompanied the Questionnaire. The picture relating to the transcription of some consonants of the palatal sector had emerged as particularly complex since the graphemes (and the corresponding phones) foreseen in the original system (ALM 1959) were insufficient. Not even the 1971 updates meant to improve the representation of some phonetic features emerged from the investigations in the operations of Response reviewing allowed to obtain a clear homogeneous picture regarding the «plosive palatal» consonants. With regard to the phonetic trait under scrutiny I have already had the opportunity to propose a path aiming to the achievement of possible operational solutions. This has taken place in view of the planned simplification / homologation and transcoding phase from the ALM original system to the IPA one - while proceeding from the examination of the Schedoni’s current state with regard to the surveys referring to central-southern Italy Corsica and Sicily (see Matranga 2019). The scope is now to investigate the same phonetic trait as proven in the materials about the surveys carried out by Lirak Dodbiba in the ALM’s three Albanian points.
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A Controllable Text Simplification System for the Italian Language

2021

Text simplification is a non-trivial task that aims at reducing the linguistic complexity of written texts. Researchers have studied the problem by proposing new methodologies for addressing the English language, but other languages, like the Italian one, are almost unexplored. In this paper, we give a contribution to the enhancement of the Automated Text Simplification research by presenting a deep learning-based system, inspired by a state of the art system for the English language, capable of simplifying Italian texts. The system has been trained and tested by leveraging the Italian version of Newsela; it has shown promising results by achieving a SARI value of 30.17.

Text simplificationComputer scienceText simplification02 engineering and technologyEnglish languagecomputer.software_genreTask (project management)03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicineLinguistic sequence complexityDeep Learning0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineeringValue (semiotics)Natural Language ProcessingSettore ING-INF/05 - Sistemi Di Elaborazione Delle InformazioniDeep Neural NetworksSettore INF/01 - Informaticabusiness.industryDeep learningItalian language030221 ophthalmology & optometryComputingMethodologies_DOCUMENTANDTEXTPROCESSING020201 artificial intelligence & image processingArtificial intelligenceState (computer science)businesscomputerNatural language processing
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Landscape effects on crop pest biocontrol are modulated by local pesticide use

2019

International audience; Control of crop pests by their natural enemies provide a valuable but poorly quantified ecosystem service in farmland. Complex landscapes including semi-natural habitats are expected to favour natural enemies thereby enhancing natural pest biocontrol in crops. However, when considering a large number of situations, the response of natural biocontrol to landscape properties is globally inconsistent, a possible explanation being that local agricultural practices counteract landscape effects. Here, we report on survey conducted along a crossed gradient of pesticide use intensity and landscape simplification that analysed the interactive effects of landscape characterist…

[SDE] Environmental Sciencespesticide pressurefungi[SDE]Environmental Sciencesfood and beveragesbiocontrollandscape simplification
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Les partenariats enregistrés en droit international privé depuis la loi du 12 mai 2009

2009

6 pages

[SHS.DROIT]Humanities and Social Sciences/Law[SHS.DROIT] Humanities and Social Sciences/Lawloi du 12 mai 2009 dite de simplification du droitnouvelle règle de conflits de loispartenariats enregistrésdroit notarial[ SHS.DROIT ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Lawconflits de loisloi applicable
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