Paper Info
Title
CLCM - A Linguistic Resource for Effective Simplification of Instructions in the Crisis Management Domain and its Evaluations.
Abstract
Due to the increasing number of emergency situations which can have substantial consequences, both financially and fatally, the Crisis Management (CM) domain is developing at an exponential speed. The efficient management of emergency situations relies on clear communication between all of the participants in a crisis situation. For these reasons the Text Complexity (TC) of the CM domain needed to be investigated and showed that CM domain texts exhibit high TC levels. This article presents a new linguistic resource in the form of Controlled Language (CL) guidelines for manual text simplification in the CM domain which aims to address high TC in the CM domain and produce clear messages to be used in crisis situations. The effectiveness of the resource has been tested via evaluation from several different perspectives important for the domain. The overall results show that the CLCM simplification has a positive impact on TC, reading comprehension, manual translation and machine translation. Additionally, an investigation of the cognitive difficulty in applying manual simplification operations led to interesting discoveries. This article provides details of the evaluation methods, the conducted experiments, their results and indications about future work.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2012
LREC 2012 - EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION
controlled languages,text simplification,text simplification evaluation methodologies
Field
DocType
Citations 
Text simplification,Computer science,Reading comprehension,Machine translation,Crisis management,Artificial intelligence,Natural language processing,Cognition,Linguistics
Conference
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
6
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Irina P. Temnikova1489.76
Constantin Orasan226636.05
Ruslan Mitkov357568.89