Sandra Maria Aluísio|Lucia Specia|Thiago Alexandre Salgueiro Pardo|Erick Galani Maziero|Renata Pontin de Mattos Fortes
Towards Brazilian Portuguese automatic text simplification systems
Universidade de São Paulo|Universidade de São Paulo|Universidade de São Paulo|Universidade de São Paulo|Universidade de São Paulo
paper investigate main linguistic phenomena make texts complex could simplified focus corpus analysis simple account texts available web brazilian portuguese propose simplification strategies language study illustrates need text simplification facilitate accessibility information poor literacy readers potentially people cognitive disabilities also highlights characteristics simplification portuguese may differ languages study consists first step towards building brazilian portuguese text simplification systems one scenarios systems could used reading electronic texts produced eg brazilian government relevant news agencies