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  <Title>Text Simplification for Reading Assistance: A Project Note</Title>
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Acknowledgments
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The research presented in this paper was partly funded by PREST, Japan Science and Technology Corporation. We thank all the teachers at the schools for the deaf who cooperated in our questionnaire survey and Toshihiro Agatsuma (Joetsu University of Education) for his generous and valuable cooperation in the survey. We also thank Yuji Matsumoto and his colleagues (Nara Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) for allowing us to use their NLP tools ChaSen and CaboCha, Taku Kudo (Nara Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) for allowing us to use his SVM tool, and Takaki Makino and his colleagues (Tokyo University) for allowing us to use LiLFeS, with which we implemented KURA. We also thank the anonymous reviewers for their suggestive and encouraging comments.</Paragraph>
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