Establishing Implementation Priorities in Aiding Writers of Controlled Crisis Management Texts

As clarity in the Crisis Management domain is crucial, and there exists an enormous amount of Crisis Management documents, a specific language resource (the Controlled Language for Crisis Management, CLCM) for editing Crisis Management instructions in English has been previously developed. Based on a specially designed controlled language evaluation experiment, we have determined that manual simplification, far from being easy, is an extremely time-consuming process and thus automatization is essential in order to facilitate the writing of clear instructions. This article describes this experiment which also aims to determine which operations should be privileged and are more urgent to be implemented in order to address the most critical issues first.