Towards Inclusive Communication in Cancer Prevention and Treatment: A Case Study on Italian Informational Materials

This paper presents an annotation scheme developed to analyze linguistic accessibility and inclusivity in Italian cancer-related informational materials. The scheme combines metadata annotation, qualitative analysis of textual and visual features, and automatically extracted measures of linguistic complexity capturing structural, lexical, and probabilistic properties of the texts. A brief case study demonstrates how the proposed framework can be applied to compare documents and identify different sources of linguistic difficulty. The approach provides a replicable methodological basis for large-scale analyses of health communication materials.