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  <Title>Text Simplification for Reading Assistance: A Project Note</Title>
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1 Introduction
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    <Paragraph position="0"> This paper reports on our ongoing research into text simplification for reading assistance. Potential users targeted in this research are congenitally deaf people (more specifically, students at (junior-)high schools for the deaf), who tend to have difficulties in reading and writing text. We are aiming at the development of the technology of text simplification with which a reading assistance system lexically and structurally paraphrases a given text into a simpler and plainer one that is thus more comprehensible.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The idea of using paraphrases for reading assistance is not necessarily novel. For example, Carroll et al. (1998) and Canning and Taito (1999) report on their project in which they address syntactic transforms aiming at making newspaper text accessible to aphasics. Following this trend of research, in this project, we address four unexplored issues as below besides the user- and task-oriented evaluation of the overall system.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> Before going to the detail, we first clarify the four issues we have addressed in the next section. We then reported on the present results on three of the four, readability assessment, paraphrase representation and post-transfer error detection, in the subsequent sections.</Paragraph>
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