Automatic Text Simplification Tools for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Adults: Benefits of Lexical Simplification and Providing Users with Autonomy
Oliver Alonzo, Matthew Seita, Abraham Glasser, Matt Huenerfauth · 2020 · Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '20)
This CHI 2020 paper is the first empirical study of lexical Automatic Text Simplification (ATS) with Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) adult readers, and introduces user autonomy as a central design variable in accessibility ATS tools. Prior ATS research with DHH users had looked…
automatic text simplification · deaf and hard of hearing · lexical simplification · user autonomy · reading accessibility