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Alector: A Parallel Corpus of Simplified French Texts with Alignments of Misreadings by Poor and Dyslexic Readers
In this paper, we present a new parallel corpus addressed to researchers, teachers, and speech therapists interested in text simplification as a means of alleviating difficulties in children learning to read.
The Nisvai Corpus of Oral Narrative Practices from Malekula (Vanuatu) and its Associated Language Resources
In this paper, we present a corpus of oral narratives from the Nisvai linguistic community and four associated language resources.
Identifying Abstract and Concrete Words in French to Better Address Reading Difficulties
Literature in psycholinguistics and neurosciences has showed that abstract and concrete concepts are perceived differently by our brain, and that the abstractness of a word can cause difficulties in reading.
Text Simplification to Help Individuals with Low Vision Read More Fluently
Reading time was recorded for each target word.
ReSyf: a French lexicon with ranked synonyms
In this article, we present ReSyf, a lexical resource of monolingual synonyms ranked according to their difficulty to be read and understood by native learners of French.
Cr\'eation et validation de signatures s\'emantiques : application \`a la mesure de similarit\'e s\'emantique et \`a la substitution lexicale (Creating and validating semantic signatures : application for measuring semantic similarity and lexical substitution)
L{'}{\'e}valuation de ces signatures est r{\'e}alis{\'e}e sur deux t{\^a}ches diff{\'e}rentes : mesures de similarit{\'e} s{\'e}mantique et substitution lexicale.
Reducing lexical complexity as a tool to increase text accessibility for children with dyslexia
Lexical complexity plays a central role in readability, particularly for dyslexic children and poor readers because of their slow and laborious decoding and word recognition skills.
Are Cohesive Features Relevant for Text Readability Evaluation?
This paper investigates the effectiveness of 65 cohesion-based variables that are commonly used in the literature as predictive features to assess text readability.
Bleu, contusion, ecchymose : tri automatique de synonymes en fonction de leur difficult\'e de lecture et compr\'ehension (Automatic ranking of synonyms according to their reading and comprehension difficulty)
Il est pour cela n{\'e}cessaire de disposer de ressources qui listent des synonymes pour des sens donn{\'e}s et les trient par ordre de difficult{\'e}.
