Bautista, Susana ; Hervás, Raquel ; Gervás, Pablo ; Power, Richard and Williams, Sandra
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Abstract
Numerical information is very common in all kinds of documents from newspapers and magazines to household bills and wage slips. However, many people find it difficult to understand, particularly people with poor education and disabilities. Sometimes numerical information is presented with hedges that modify the meaning. A numerical hedge is a word or phrase employed to indicate explicitly that some loss of precision has taken place (e.g., “around”) and it may also indicate the direction of approximation (e.g., “more than”). This paper presents a study of the use of numerical hedges that is part of research investigating the process of rewriting difficult numerical expressions in simpler ways. We carried out a survey in which experts in numeracy were asked to simplify a range of proportion expressions and analysed the results to obtain guidelines for automating the simplification task.
| Item Type: | Conference Item |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2011 Association for Computational Linguistics |
| Funders: | ESRC Small Grant Ref. RES-000-22-2760 |
| Keywords: | natural language processing; text simplification; numerical hedges; assistive technology; |
| Academic Unit/Department: | Mathematics, Computing and Technology > Computing |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: | Centre for Research in Computing (CRC) |
| Item ID: | 29190 |
| Depositing User: | Sandra Williams |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Aug 2011 13:54 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Dec 2012 22:11 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/29190 |
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