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title = "Text Simplification to Help Individuals with Low Vision Read More Fluently",
author = "Sauvan, Lauren and
Stolowy, Natacha and
Aguilar, Carlos and
Fran{\c{c}}ois, Thomas and
Gala, N{\'u}ria and
Matonti, Fr{\'e}d{\'e}ric and
Castet, Eric and
Calabr{\`e}se, Aur{\'e}lie",
editor = "Gala, N{\'u}ria and
Wilkens, Rodrigo",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Tools and Resources to Empower People with REAding DIfficulties (READI)",
month = may,
year = "2020",
address = "Marseille, France",
publisher = "European Language Resources Association",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.readi-1.5",
pages = "27--32",
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%A Sauvan, Lauren
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%A Aguilar, Carlos
%A François, Thomas
%A Gala, Núria
%A Matonti, Frédéric
%A Castet, Eric
%A Calabrèse, Aurélie
%Y Gala, Núria
%Y Wilkens, Rodrigo
%S Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Tools and Resources to Empower People with REAding DIfficulties (READI)
%D 2020
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Markdown (Informal)
[Text Simplification to Help Individuals with Low Vision Read More Fluently](https://aclanthology.org/2020.readi-1.5) (Sauvan et al., READI 2020)
ACL
- Lauren Sauvan, Natacha Stolowy, Carlos Aguilar, Thomas François, Núria Gala, Frédéric Matonti, Eric Castet, and Aurélie Calabrèse. 2020. Text Simplification to Help Individuals with Low Vision Read More Fluently. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Tools and Resources to Empower People with REAding DIfficulties (READI), pages 27–32, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.