Matthew Shardlow
A Survey of Automated Text Simplification
University of Manchester
text simplification modifies syntax lexicon improve understandability language end userthis survey identifies classifies simplification research within period 19982013simplification used many applications including second language learners preprocessing pipelines assistive technologythere many approaches simplification task including lexical syntactic statistical machine translation hybrid techniquesthis survey also explores current challenges field facestext simplification nontrivial task rapidly growing fieldthis survey gives overview contemporary research whilst taking account history brought text simplification current state