Publications

Journal Papers


Shardlow, M. 2014. A Survey of Automated Text Simplification. International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications (IJACSA) Special Issue on Natural Language Processing. PDF


Conference Papers


Shardlow, M. 2014. Out in the Open: Finding and Categorising Errors in the Lexical Simplification Pipeline. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’12), Reykjavik, Iceland, May. European Language Resources Association (ELRA). PDF Slides

Peer Reviewed Workshops


Shardlow, M. 2013. The CW Corpus: Evaluating the Identification of Complex Words. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Predicting and Improving Text Readability for Target Reader Populations at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Sofia, Bulgaria, Association for Computational Linguistics PDF Slides

Shardlow, M. 2013. A Comparison of Techniques to Automatically Identify Complex Words. In Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Sofia, Bulgaria, Association for Computational Linguistics PDF

Poster Presentations 


Second Year Research Symposium Poster PDF
Third Year Research Symposium Poster PDF

Invited Talks


Lexical Simplification. Improving Understandability. Reducing Errors.  A talk I gave as part of the Language@Leeds PGR Seminar Series.
The CW Corpus The talk associated with the paper: "The CW Corpus: Evaluating the Identification of Complex Words."