Literature Reviews

Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.

• Making It Simplext: Implementation and Evaluation of a Text Simplification System for Spanish

  Horacio Saggion, Sanja Štajner, Stefan Bott, Simon Mille, Luz Rello, Biljana Drndarevic (2015) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This paper presents Simplext, the first comprehensive automatic text simplification (ATS) system for Spanish. The research addresses a fundamental accessibility barrier: textual content written in complex language excludes people with cognitive disab…

  • text simplification
  • natural language processing
  • cognitive accessibility
  • readability
  • Spanish
  • intellectual disability
  • Down syndrome
  • automatic text simplification

• Automatic Natural Language Generation Applied to Alternative and Augmentative Communication for Online Video Content Services using SimpleNLG for Spanish

  Silvia García-Méndez, Milagros Fernández-Gavilanes, Enrique Costa-Montenegro, Jonathan Juncal-Martínez, Francisco Javier González-Castaño (2018) — Proceedings of the 15th International Web for All Conference (W4A 2018)

  This short paper presents the development of a Spanish version of SimpleNLG — a natural language generation (NLG) library — specifically enhanced for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) applications. The work addresses a gap at the inter…

  • AAC
  • natural language processing
  • pictograms
  • Spanish
  • natural language generation
  • autism
  • communication accessibility
  • video accessibility
  • speech and language