This paper describes team GMU-WLV submission to the TSAR shared-task on multilingual lexical simplification. The goal of the task is to automatically provide a set of candidate …
Identifying words which may cause difficulty for a reader is an essential step in most lexical text simplification systems prior to lexical substitution and can also be used for assessing the …
Text simplification is a method for improving the accessibility of text by converting complex sentences into simple sentences. Multiple studies have been done to create datasets for text …
GE Zaharia, DC Cercel… - 2020 IEEE 32nd …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Complex Word Identification (CWI) is a task centered on detecting hard-to-understand words, or groups of words, in texts from different areas of expertise. The purpose of CWI is to …
GE Zaharia, DC Cercel, M Dascalu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.06983, 2021 - arxiv.org
Reading is a complex process which requires proper understanding of texts in order to create coherent mental representations. However, comprehension problems may arise due …
JAO Zambrano, A Montejo-Raéz - Proceedings of the International …, 2021 - aclanthology.org
Reading is a complex process not only because of the words or sections that are difficult for the reader to understand. Complex word identification (CWI) is the task of detecting in the …
A de Wynter, A Hevia, SQ Chen - arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.07556, 2023 - arxiv.org
We present an evaluation of text simplification (TS) in Spanish for a production system, by means of two corpora focused in both complex-sentence and complex-word identification …
M Meli, M Tanti, C Porter - Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on …, 2024 - aclanthology.org
Abstract Natural Language Processing techniques have been developed to assist in simplifying online content while preserving meaning. However, for low-resource languages …
R Stodden, L Kallmeyer - Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on …, 2020 - aclanthology.org
In text simplification and readability research, several features have been proposed to estimate or simplify a complex text, eg, readability scores, sentence length, or proportion of …