1st Workshop on Tools and Resources for People with REAding DIfficulties (READI)
Résumé
Recent studies show that the number of children and adults facing difficulties in reading and
understanding written texts is steadily growing. Reading challenges can show up early on and
may include reading accuracy, speed, or comprehension to the extent that the impairment interferes
with academic achievement or activities of daily life. Various technologies (text customization, text
simplification, text to speech devices, screening for readers through games and web applications, to
name a few) have been developed to help poor readers to get better access to information as well as
to support reading development. Among those technologies, text simplification is a powerful way to
leverage document accessibility by using NLP techniques.
The “FirstWorkshop on Tools and Resources to Empower People with REAding DIfficulties” (READI),
collocated with the “International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation” (LREC 2020),
aims at presenting current state-of-the-art techniques and achievements for text simplification together with existing reading aids and resources for lifelong learning, addressing a variety of domains and languages, including natural language processing, linguistics, psycholinguistics, psychophysics of vision and education. A particular focus is put on methods, tools and resources obtained through automatic text adaptation, ultimately addressed to children struggling with difficulties in learning to read, to the community of teachers, to speech-language pathologists, to parents seeking solutions, and to those professionals involved with adults struggling with reading (e.g. illiterates, aphasic readers and low vision readers).
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