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Mr. Gabriel Gutu-Robu

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Researcher - UNIVERSITATEA NAȚIONALĂ DE ȘTIINȚĂ ȘI TEHNOLOGIE POLITEHNICA BUCUREȘTI

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Automated Text Evaluation and Simplification Call name: P 1 - SP 1.1 - Proiecte de cercetare pentru stimularea tinerelor echipe independente
PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2019-2209 2020 - 2022

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI (RO)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI (RO)

Project website: https://readerbench.com/projects/ates

Abstract:

Writing is an essential learning activity that requires both practice and experience. Writing is performed in academic environments, at workspaces, or for personal purposes, and people’s ability to clearly and concisely express their ideas in a coherent manner is an essential skill, difficult to both evaluate and improve. ATES (Automated Text Evaluation and Simplification) aims to help users improve the quality of their writing, in both English and Romanian languages, by providing immediate feedback, tailored to their writing style. Complex Natural Language Processing techniques, including deep learning models, will be used to automatically score essays relying on textual complexity indices, together with word embeddings, applied on annotated datasets of documents. In addition, textual complexity indices, combined with various features of the cohesion graph, will trigger rules to improve the text by comparison to baseline domain-specific documents. The system will also make suggestions for text simplification in order to improve its readability. For this matter, machine translation models will be trained on existing text simplification datasets, augmented with paraphrases, and ordered by readability scores. Moreover, the overall complexity of the text will be measured by automatically computing word Age of Acquisition (AoA) scores through incremental semantic models and regression analyses, in order to approximate the age when people adequately learn a word’s meaning.

Lib2Life- The revival of libraries and cultural heritage through advanced technologies Call name: P 1 - SP 1.2 - Proiecte complexe realizate in consorții CDI
PN-III-P1-1.2-PCCDI-2017-0689 2018 - 2021

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: BIBLIOTECA CENTRALA UNIVERSITARA "CAROL I"

Project partners: BIBLIOTECA CENTRALA UNIVERSITARA "CAROL I" (RO); BIBLIOTECA CENTRALĂ UNIVERSITARĂ "M. EMINESCU" (RO); BIBLIOTECA CENTRALA UNIVERSITARA LUCIAN BLAGA (RO); BIBLIOTECA CENTRALA UNIVERSITARA EUGEN TODORAN (RO); UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI (RO); INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE - DEZVOLTARE IN INFORMATICA - ICI BUCURESTI (RO)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI (RO)

Project website: http://www.lib2life.ro

Abstract:

The project Lib2Life – the Revival of libraries and cultural heritage through advanced technologies has the purpose of reviving the role of the libraries as core institutions in the educational process; to give full meaning to a cultural heritage often shaded by the magnetism of the new digital formulas invading the concrete reality; to reinvent reading practices according to the profile of the contemporary user.

The project Lib2Life is developed by a consortium of four Central University Libraries, University Politehnica and the National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics, bringing together top specialists in the field of restoration of heritage documents, library science and advanced IT technologies.

The project Lib2Life has four sub-components with the following common objectives: developing new solutions for cultural heritage preservation; promoting it through cutting-edge methods and techniques; increasing access to info-documentary resources; improvement of the library services; knowledge and technology transfer to society.

The methods and techniques that will be put into practice will follow the highest standards of scientific innovation, without neglecting practical applicability. Thus, along with the colloquia and scientific publications, much of the Lib2Life project’s results have high socio-economic value: patents, registers and public access databases, software apps, guides for strategies and good practice.

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