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Studies on text complexity, vocabulary of popular newspapers and text simplification for adults with low literacy| old_uid | 15547 |
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| title | Studies on text complexity, vocabulary of popular newspapers and text simplification for adults with low literacy |
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| start_date | 2015/04/22 |
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| schedule | 14h |
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| online | no |
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| summary | In the first part of this talk, we’ll present PorPopular Project, which is a systematic collection of texts from Brazilian popular newspapers whose intended audience is composed primarily by people with low literacy levels and low income. The main goal of the project is profiling the lexicon and language used in these texts as a possible way to model text simplicity in Brazilian Portuguese in terms of vocabulary and syntax. In the second part, we’ll show the results of three studies: (1) text complexity of compared literary texts in Brazilian Portuguese and English, (2) text complexity and automated text simplification for adults with poor reading skills, currently ongoing, and (3) analysis and comparison of two corpora of simple texts for readers with low literacy: La Traversée (contemporary fiction novels in French) and É Só o Começo (adaptations of classic novels in Brazilian Portuguese), also ongoing. |
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| responsibles | Sigogne, Rakho |
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