The explosive growth of online education environments is generating a massive volume of
data, specially in text format from forums, chats, social networks, assessments, essays …

The occurrence of unknown words in texts significantly hinders reading comprehension. To
improve accessibility for specific target populations, computational modeling has been …

We report the findings of the second Complex Word Identification (CWI) shared task
organized as part of the BEA workshop co-located with NAACL-HLT'2018. The second CWI …

This paper presents the results and main findings of SemEval-2021 Task 1-Lexical
Complexity Prediction. We provided participants with an augmented version of the CompLex …

State-of-the-art chatbots for English are now able to hold conversations on virtually any topic
(eg Adiwardana et al., 2020; Roller et al., 2021). However, existing dialogue systems in the …

People with intellectual, language and learning disabilities face accessibility barriers when
reading texts with complex words. Following accessibility guidelines, complex words can be …

Lexical complexity plays an important role in reading comprehension. lexical complexity
prediction (LCP) can not only be used as a part of Lexical Simplification systems, but also as …

Complex Word Identification (CWI) is the task of identifying which words or phrases in a
sentence are difficult to understand by a target audience. The latest CWI Shared Task …

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 …

Lexical simplification (LS) is a process of replacing complex words with simpler alternatives
to help readers understand sentences seamlessly. This process is divided into two primary …