Accessible numerical information: Cookery recipes as a special case

This paper presents a proposal to solve the need of making numerical information accessible. We use the domain of cooking recipes as a special case of study. For the numerical information in recipes to be accessible it is necessary to adapt the different mathematical forms used for the quantities of different ingredients. It is a first approach to automate the adaptation of the recipes for universal accessibility.

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