Lexical simplification
Lexical Simplification with Neural Ranking
... In Lexical Simplification (LS), words and expres- sions that challenge a target audience are replaced with simpler ...Early lexical simplifiers (Devlin and Tait, 1998; Carroll et ...
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An Adaptable Lexical Simplification Architecture for Major Ibero Romance Languages
... Lexical Simplification is the task of re- ducing the lexical complexity of textual documents by replacing difficult words with easier to read (or understand) expres- sions while preserving the ...
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Reliable Lexical Simplification for Non Native Speakers
... The findings of the Lexical Simplification Task of SemEval 2012 (Specia et al., 2012) have shown that ranking substitution candidates with respect to their simplicity is not an easy task. In order to ...
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Simplifying Lexical Simplification: Do We Need Simplified Corpora?
... data-driven simplification came with the creation of Simple Wikipedia, which, aligned with the “original” Wikipedia, constitutes a large compara- ble corpus to learn ...discern simplification edits from ...
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Lexical Simplification with the Deep Structured Similarity Model
... Lexical simplification is the task of automatically rewriting a text by substituting words or phrases with simpler variants, while retaining its mean- ing and ...to lexical simplifica- tion generally ...
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Japanese Lexical Simplification for Non Native Speakers
... Japanese. Lexical simplification is a process to make a sentence more readable for non-native speakers by replacing complex words to simpler ones that retain the same ...on lexical ...
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Understanding the Lexical Simplification Needs of Non Native Speakers of English
... Text Simplification is a useful application both to improve other Natural Language Processing tasks and to assist language-impaired readers (Chandrasekar et ...In Lexical Simplification – the task of ...
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Out in the Open: Finding and Categorising Errors in the Lexical Simplification Pipeline
... The words profoundly and scholarship may be transformed to deeply and learning respectively. Thus, improving the comprehensibility of the sentence for a low literacy reader. There are many groups that could benefit from ...
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Controlled and Balanced Dataset for Japanese Lexical Simplification
... English lexical simplifi- cation based on that developed by McCarthy and Navigli ...of lexical simplification be- cause the human ranking of the resulting simpli- fication might be affected by the ...
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Evaluation Dataset and System for Japanese Lexical Simplification
... The recent years have seen a great activity in this field of inquiry, especially for English: At the SemEval-2012 workshop, many systems were par- ticipating in the English lexical simplification task ...
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Putting it Simply: a Context Aware Approach to Lexical Simplification
... phrase identification (Androutsopoulos and Malaka- siotis, 2010) and the SemEval-2007 English Lexi- cal Substitution Task (McCarthy and Navigli, 2007). However, these do not consider issues of readabil- ity and ...
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Can Spanish Be Simpler? LexSiS: Lexical Simplification for Spanish
... Text simplification has by now become a well-established paradigm in NLP, combining a number of rather heterogeneous sub-tasks, such as syntactic simplification, content reduction, lexical ...
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CEFR based Lexical Simplification Dataset
... It should be also pointed out that there are some words in the list of candidates that require outside knowledge for re- placement. Table 3 from the dataset of Horn et al. (2014) serves as an example. If we take the verb ...
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Improving Readability of Swedish Electronic Health Records through Lexical Simplification: First Results
... on lexical simplification of Swedish EHRs, by which we mean detecting the unknown, out-of- dictionary words and trying to resolve them either as compounded known words, abbreviations or ...
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Benchmarking Lexical Simplification Systems
... Lexical Simplification is the task of replacing complex words in a text with simpler ...several Lexical Simplification ...typical Lexical Simplification pipeline, both ...
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LEXenstein: A Framework for Lexical Simplification
... Lexical Simplification consists in replac- ing complex words in a text with sim- pler alternatives. We introduce LEXen- stein, the first open source framework for Lexical Simplification. It ...
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Evaluating Lexical Simplification and Vocabulary Knowledge for Learners of French: Possibilities of Using the FLELex Resource
... significant lexical simplification effect, we compared each pair of original and simplified texts with respect to the number of lexical units that were attributed to each of the six difficulty levels ...
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Recursive Context Aware Lexical Simplification
... the lexical and syn- tactic components of a TS system to be indepen- dent and complementary to each other, and focus on the lexical simplification (LS) component for a number of ...that ...
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Personalized Substitution Ranking for Lexical Simplification
... A lexical simplification (LS) system substi- tutes difficult words in a text with simpler ones to make it easier for the user to under- stand. In the typical LS pipeline, the Substi- tution Ranking step ...
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A Word Complexity Lexicon and A Neural Readability Ranking Model for Lexical Simplification
... Lexical simplification is an important subfield that is concerned with the complexity of words or phrases, and particularly how to measure read- ability and reduce the complexity using alterna- tive ...cal ...
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