Also transformations of verbal features are likely to intercept simplification operations in a language like Italian with a rich inflectional paradigm.
in ATS, these techniques are typically applied to already existing parallel corpora; in this case the task of aligning the original sentence to its corresponding simple version can be tackled by applying similarity metrics that consider the TF/IDF score of the words in the sentence (Barzilay and Elhadad, 2003;Nelken and Shieber, 2006;Coster and Kauchak, 2011) or methods taking into account also the order in which information is presented (Bott and Saggion, 2011).