Towards an On-Demand Simple Portuguese Wikipedia

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Towards an On-Demand Simple Portuguese Wikipedia
Authors
Arnaldo Candido
Ann A. Copestake
Lucia Specia
Sandra Maria Aluísio
Publication date
2011
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Towards an On-Demand Simple Portuguese Wikipedia - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2011, written by Arnaldo Candido, Ann A. Copestake, Lucia Specia and Sandra Maria Aluísio.

Overview

The Simple English Wikipedia provides a simplified version of Wikipedia's English articles for readers with special needs. However, there are fewer efforts to make information in Wikipedia in other languages accessible to a large audience. This work proposes the use of a syntactic simplification engine with high precision rules to automatically generate a Simple Portuguese Wikipedia on demand, based on user interactions with the main Portuguese Wikipedia. Authors estimates indicated that a human can simplify about 28,000 occurrences of analysed patterns per million words, while system can correctly simplify 22,200 occurrences, with estimated f-measure 77.2%.

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Candido, Arnaldo; Copestake, Ann A.; Specia, Lucia; Aluísio, Sandra Maria. (2011). "[[Towards an On-Demand Simple Portuguese Wikipedia]]". Association for Computational Linguistics.

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{{cite journal |last1=Candido |first1=Arnaldo |last2=Copestake |first2=Ann A. |last3=Specia |first3=Lucia |last4=Aluísio |first4=Sandra Maria |title=Towards an On-Demand Simple Portuguese Wikipedia |date=2011 |url=https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/Towards_an_On-Demand_Simple_Portuguese_Wikipedia |journal=Association for Computational Linguistics}}

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Candido, Arnaldo; Copestake, Ann A.; Specia, Lucia; Aluísio, Sandra Maria. (2011). &quot;<a href="https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/Towards_an_On-Demand_Simple_Portuguese_Wikipedia">Towards an On-Demand Simple Portuguese Wikipedia</a>&quot;. Association for Computational Linguistics.