Text simplification

<p>Text simplification is an operation used in <a href="/facts/Natural_language_processing/1hjMKsSN">natural language processing</a> to change, enhance, classify, or otherwise process an existing body of human-readable text so its grammar and structure is greatly simplified while the underlying <a href="/facts/Meaning_(linguistic)/1L4WwLAP">meaning</a> and <a href="/facts/Information/3LdrzXtJ">information</a> remain the same. Text simplification is an important area of research because of communication needs in an increasingly complex and interconnected world more dominated by science, technology, and new media. But natural human languages pose huge problems because they ordinarily contain large vocabularies and complex constructions that machines, no matter how fast and well-programmed, cannot easily process. However, researchers have discovered that, to reduce linguistic diversity, they can use methods of <a href="/facts/Semantic_compression/FCaEM1qM">semantic compression</a> to limit and simplify a set of words used in given texts.
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Text simplification