Application of the principles and tenets cognitive linguistics to translation studies rests on assumption that both them employ same meaning process while working with a text. Procedures implemented translate inaugural address American President Trump have been regarded from point view Construction Grammar. The construction is viewed as main unit representing source linguistic material below le...

The occurrence of unknown words in texts significantly hinders reading comprehension. To improve accessibility for specific target populations, computational modeling has been applied to identify complex and substitute them simpler alternatives. In this article, we present an overview approaches lexical complexity prediction focusing on the work carried out English data. We survey relevant prob...

The Easy-to-Read guidelines recommend visual support and lexical simplification to facilitate text processing, but few studies have empirically verified the efficacy of these guidelines. This study examined influence recommendations on sentence processing by examining eye movements at text- word-level in adult readers. We tested 30 non-university adults (low education level) university (high le...

This study explores the possibility of replacing the costly and time-consuming human evaluation of the grammaticality and meaning preservation of the output of text simplification (TS) systems with some automatic measures. The focus is on six widely used machine translation (MT) evaluation metrics and their correlation with human judgements of grammaticality and meaning preservation in text sni...

Medical texts can be difficult to understand for laymen, due to a frequent occurrence of specialised medical terms. Replacing these difficult terms with easier synonyms can, however, lead to improved readability. In this study, we have adapted a method for assessing difficulty of words to make it more suitable to medical Swedish. The difficulty of a word was assessed not only by measuring the f...

This paper presents work in progress towards automatic recognition and classification of comparisons and similes. Among possible applications, we discuss the place of this task in text simplification for readers with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), who are known to have deficits in comprehending figurative language. We propose an approach to comparison recognition through the use of syntactic ...

In this demo paper, we present a text simplification approach that is directed at improving the performance of state-of-the-art Open Relation Extraction (RE) systems. As syntactically complex sentences often pose a challenge for current Open RE approaches, we have developed a simplification framework that performs a pre-processing step by taking a single sentence as input and using a set of syn...