What is it about?
The key challenge with most semi-literates is the unfamiliarity of enhanced English vocabulary which is used on digital platforms. Most of these people have elementary education and understand “Simple English” (simplified vocabulary and grammar). We have created a paraphrasing system which converts complex English into an easy to comprehend sentences, understandable by people with lower digital literacy.
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Why is it important?
"Information for all" should be the key element in digital world. United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) also includes goals on reducing inequality, quality education and no poverty. Our work empowers people with low education to become digitally enabled, thereby harnessing the knowledge on digital platforms. This helps to reduce inequality for digital access, empowers them to educate themselves with enormous digital knowledge base and assist in economic empowerment.
Perspectives
400+ million people in India fall into the category of semi-literates. Across the globe, the number is much bigger. Our work is a step towards bringing digital platforms more accessible to English speakers with low academic education.
Prawaal Sharma
Birla Institute of Technology and Science
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This page is a summary of: Zero-shot reductive paraphrasing for digitally semi-literate, December 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3503162.3503171.
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