Replace, Paraphrase or Fine-tune? Evaluating Automatic Simplification for Medical Texts in Spanish (2024.lrec-main)
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Leonardo Campillos-Llanos, Ana Rosa Terroba, Rocío Bartolomé, Ana Valverde-Mateos, Cristina González, Adrián Capllonch-Carrión, Jonathan Heras
| Challenge: | lexicon-based simplification methods can help patients understand medical documents . but they must ensure that the content is transmitted rigorously and not creating wrong information. |
| Approach: | They tested automatic simplification techniques using a Spanish lexicon of technical and laymen terms. |
| Outcome: | The proposed methods improve the quantitative results and the human evaluation of medical documents. |
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