9:15 - 9:30 | Welcome and opening |
9:30 - 10:30 | Invited speaker The state of automatic text simplification: Successes and challenges Advaith Siddharthan |
10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
11:00 - 12:30 | Text simplification and computational linguistics The Fewer, the Better? A Contrastive Study about Ways to Simplify Ruslan Mitkov and Sanja Štajner Relative clause extraction for syntactic simplification Iustin Dornescu, Richard Evans, Constantin Orasan Exploring the effects of Sentence Simplification on Hindi to English Machine Translation System Kshitij Mishra, Ankush Soni, Rahul Sharma, Dipti Sharma |
12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch break |
14:00 - 15:00 | Text Simplification for different user groups (I) Assessing Conformance of Manually Simplified Corpora with User Requirements: the Case of Autistic Readers Sanja Štajner, Richard Evans, Iustin Dornescu Automatic Text Simplification For Handling Intellectual Property (The Case of Multiple Patent Claims) Svetlana Sheremetyeva |
15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee break |
15:30 - 16:30 | Text Simplification for different user groups (II) Making Biographical Data in Wikipedia Readable: A Pattern-based Multilingual Approach Itziar Gonzalez-Dios, María Jesús Aranzabe, Arantza Díaz de Ilarraza Making historical texts accessible to everybody Cristina Vertan and Walther von Hahn |
16:30 - 17:30 | Round table |