Framework for the Analysis of Simplified Texts Taking Discourse into Account: the Basque Causal Relations as Case Study

摘要

Text simplification is crucial for some readers to understand the content of a text. Analyzing simplified texts can help to understand the mechanism hidden in the process of simplification. In this paper we present a research framework to analyze the impact of simplification operations on discourse. To that end, we used the Corpus of the Simplified Basque texts (CBST) and we studied the strategies followed in the simplification of causal relations and their effects at discourse level. From this analysis of the sample we derive that discourse has not been always taken into account which may lead to a lack of coherence in the simplified text.