Unsupervised Lexical Simplification for Non-Native Speakers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v30i1.9885Keywords:
Lexical Simplification, Text Simplification, Text Adaptation, Word EmbeddingsAbstract
Lexical Simplification is the task of replacing complex words with simpler alternatives. We propose a novel, unsupervised approach for the task. It relies on two resources: a corpus of subtitles and a new type of word embeddings model that accounts for the ambiguity of words. We compare the performance of our approach and many others over a new evaluation dataset, which accounts for the simplification needs of 400 non-native English speakers. The experiments show that our approach outperforms state-of-the-art work in Lexical Simplification.
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2016-03-05
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Paetzold, G., & Specia, L. (2016). Unsupervised Lexical Simplification for Non-Native Speakers. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 30(1). https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v30i1.9885
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Special Track: Cognitive Systems