The primary purpose of this project is to explore and better understand which are the main techniques that allow improving the accessibility of a written text. These techniques can be applied to any text, or - as in this case - to a text in Italian, and provide a simplified version.

Then there is the analysis of some existing solutions, both automated and manual, with some examples of use. Of these, its strengths, weaknesses, and fields of use are described. Finally, the developed technological solution is presented; it uses some of the techniques analyzed to improve the accessibility of a text in Italian.

This project aims to help all those people experiencing difficulties to make sense of a text for a variety of temporary or permanent reasons (e.g., intellectual disabilities, elderly, foreigners and immigrants...). This does not limit the understanding of people who do not have these types of difficulties.

This project is my Bachelor's thesis. I was followed by professor Monica Landoni and assistant Leandro Soares Guedes. While researching, I also had contact with the researcher Marilina Mastrogiuseppe, more experienced in the subject of textual understanding in the field of cognitive disabilities.

The thesis was finally awarded with a grade of 9.5.