Ontology-Based Text Simplification for Dyslexics

Ensuring high school students, university students and adults, having learning disabilities, as dyslexia with actual and easy to read learning and scientific content is of great importance in our days. The main problem, discussed in this paper is how to make growing scientific and learning content more accessible for peoples, having dyslexia, or other learning disabilities. We analyze many recent researches, related to text simplification and Controlled Natural Languages and its application for development of textual learning resources for dyslexic learners in several languages. We propose ontology-based methodology for development of easy to use by dyslexics Bulgarian language textual resources using English language text, text simplification and ontology management.