Language technologies applied to document simplification for helping autistic people

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Highlights:

• A reading comprehension tool for people with ASD is exposed.

• The tool assist people with ASD and careers to simplify texts.

• A key element of the tool is the concepts substitution with images.

• Figurative language is also simplified for people with ASD.

• Summary generation and topic detection are other functions of the tool.

摘要

•A reading comprehension tool for people with ASD is exposed.•The tool assist people with ASD and careers to simplify texts.•A key element of the tool is the concepts substitution with images.•Figurative language is also simplified for people with ASD.•Summary generation and topic detection are other functions of the tool.

论文关键词:Natural Language Processing,Text simplification,ASD,Image retrieval,Text summarization,Topic Models,Idiom detection

论文评审过程:Available online 2 March 2015.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2015.02.044