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(Manandise, 2019) ⇒ Esmeralda Manandise. (2019). “Towards Unlocking the Narrative of the United States Income Tax Forms.” In: Proceedings of the Second Financial Narrative Processing Workshop (FNP 2019).

Subject Headings: TurboTax, Tax Form, Arithmetic Word Problem, 2010 Plain Writing Act, Clear-and-Simple Writting.

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The present study contributes to the literature on the language of the tax-and-regulations domain in the context of highly-formatted tax forms published by a federal agency. Content and form analyses rely on a methodology that looks for meaning and patterns in connection to the main purpose of income tax filing, i.e. figuring out calculations to determine whether taxes were overpaid or owed to the United States Internal Revenue Service. Profiling the income-tax forms by spelling out language regularities across the set has at least two advantages. Firstly, profiling contributes to the understanding of how the 2010 Plain Writing Act mandate of 'clear and simple' writing is being achieved — if at all. Secondly, profiling a small, unannotated corpus can help determine the Natural Language Processing approach best fitted to extract, represent, and execute automatically tax calculations expressed as arithmetic word problems.

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	Author	volume	Date Value	title	type	journal	titleUrl	doi	note	year
2019 TowardsUnlockingtheNarrativeoft	Esmeralda Manandise			Towards Unlocking the Narrative of the United States Income Tax Forms