Abstract
© 2018, Springer International Publishing AG. Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder which has a life-long impact on the lives of people diagnosed with the condition. In many cases, people with ASD are unable to derive the gist or meaning of written documents due to their inability to process complex sentences, understand non-literal text, and understand uncommon and technical terms. This paper presents FIRST, an innovative project which developed language technology (LT) to make documents more accessible to people with ASD. The project has produced a powerful editor which enables carers of people with ASD to prepare texts suitable for this population. Assessment of the texts generated using the editor showed that they are not less readable than those generated more slowly as a result of onerous unaided conversion and were significantly more readable than the originals. Evaluation of the tool shows that it can have a positive impact on the lives of people with ASD.Citation
Orăsan C., Evans R., Mitkov R. (2018) Intelligent Text Processing to Help Readers with Autism. In: Shaalan K., Hassanien A., Tolba F. (eds) Intelligent Natural Language Processing: Trends and Applications. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 740. Springer, Cham, pp. 713-740.Publisher
Springer International PublishingAdditional Links
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-67056-0_33Type
Chapter in bookLanguage
enSeries/Report no.
Studies in Computational Intelligence 740ISSN
1860-949XISBN
9783319670553ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1007/978-3-319-67056-0_33
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