FIRST: una herramienta para facilitar la comprensión lectora en el trastorno del espectro autista de alto funcionamiento

Navarro, Alicia; Prudencio, Sandra Freire; Pérez, J. Martos; Gil, David; Jordanova, Vesna; Pashoja, Arlinda Cerga; Shishkova, A. M.; Evans, Richard J.

doi:10.33588/rn.58s01.2014003

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“…The main user requirements for each type of processing attempted in the project are summarised in subsections 3.3-3.5. More details of those requirements are presented by Martos et al [34] and González-Navarro et al [24].…”

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Intelligent Text Processing to Help Readers with Autism

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2017

Intelligent Natural Language Processing: Trends and Applications

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Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder which has a lifelong impact on the lives of people diagnosed with the condition. In many cases, people with ASD are unable to derive the gist or meaning of written documents due to their inability to process complex sentences, understand non-literal text, and understand uncommon and technical terms. This paper presents FIRST, an innovative project which developed language technology (LT) to make documents more accessible to people with ASD. The project has produced a powerful editor which enables carers of people with ASD to prepare texts suitable for this population. Assessment of the texts generated using the editor showed that they are not less readable than those generated more slowly as a result of onerous unaided conversion and were significantly more readable than the originals. Evaluation of the tool shows that it can have a positive impact on the lives of people with ASD.

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Intelligent Text Processing to Help Readers with Autism

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2017

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“…We adapted Language Technologies resources to design a system called Open Book in three languages—English, Spanish, and Bulgarian. Further details of this project can be found in previous publications (40–42).…”

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Improving Reading in Adolescents and Adults With High-Functioning Autism Through an Assistive Technology Tool: A Cross-Over Multinational Study

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People with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) experience reading comprehension difficulties, often misinterpreting complex texts, metaphors, and idioms. We have developed and tested a new assistive technology tool for adaptive, personalized text simplification, called Open Book. This tool is an open-sourced, online platform that uses Natural Language Processing with the specific aim of assisting reading and aiding understanding of written text for people with ASD. The accessibility and effectiveness of Open Book was tested by examining the differences in text comprehension scores between the original texts and texts that were simplified by Open Book tool, randomly allocated to study participants. Two hundred forty-three participants (153 adults and 90 adolescents) with high-functioning ASD were recruited in the UK, Spain, and Bulgaria. Regarding the primary outcome, results showed that both adults and adolescents with ASD gave more correct answers for the simplified ( M = 11.2, SD = 4.1) than original texts ( M = 10, SD = 4.1; p < 0.001). This finding was consistent across age groups and countries. Regarding the secondary outcome, when participants were asked to blindly rate how easy was to understand each text, simplified texts were rated as easier ( M = 7.6, SD = 2.4) to understand than the original texts ( M = 8.7, SD = 2.6; p < 0.001). The Open Book software seems to have the potential to be a useful tool in assisting reading among people with ASD. Our findings support our primary hypothesis that texts simplified through Open Book were easier to comprehend compared to original texts.

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FIRST: una herramienta para facilitar la comprensión lectora en el trastorno del espectro autista de alto funcionamiento

Cited by 2 publications

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Intelligent Text Processing to Help Readers with Autism

Intelligent Text Processing to Help Readers with Autism

Improving Reading in Adolescents and Adults With High-Functioning Autism Through an Assistive Technology Tool: A Cross-Over Multinational Study

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