Moving Beyond Readability Metrics for Health-Related Text Simplification

Limited health literacy is a barrier to understanding health information. Simplifying text can reduce this barrier and possibly other known disparities in health. Unfortunately, few tools exist to simplify text with demonstrated impact on comprehension. By leveraging modern data sources integrated w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kauchak, David, Leroy, Gondy
Other Authors: Univ Arizona, Eller Coll Management, Management Informat Syst
Language:en
Published: IEEE COMPUTER SOC 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/621254
http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/621254