Lexical complexity prediction: An overview

K North, M Zampieri, M Shardlow - ACM Computing Surveys, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The occurrence of unknown words in texts significantly hinders reading comprehension. To
improve accessibility for specific target populations, computational modeling has been …

[PDF][PDF] Automatic text simplification for social good: Progress and challenges

S Štajner - Findings of the Association for Computational …, 2021 - aclanthology.org
Since the late 1990s, automatic text simplification (ATS) was promoted as a natural
language processing (NLP) task with great potential to make texts more accessible to …

Semeval-2021 task 1: Lexical complexity prediction

M Shardlow, R Evans, GH Paetzold… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
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 …

Findings of the TSAR-2022 shared task on multilingual lexical simplification

H Saggion, S Štajner, D Ferrés, KC Sheang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
We report findings of the TSAR-2022 shared task on multilingual lexical simplification,
organized as part of the Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility, and Readability …

Crosslingual named entity recognition for clinical de-identification applied to a COVID-19 Italian data set

R Catelli, F Gargiulo, V Casola, G De Pietro… - Applied soft …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The COrona VIrus Disease 19 (COVID-19) pandemic required the work of all global
experts to tackle it. Despite the abundance of new studies, privacy laws prevent their …

Lsbert: Lexical simplification based on bert

J Qiang, Y Li, Y Zhu, Y Yuan, Y Shi… - IEEE/ACM transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Lexical simplification (LS) aims at replacing complex words with simpler alternatives. LS
commonly consists of three main steps: complex word identification, substitute generation …

Lexical simplification benchmarks for English, Portuguese, and Spanish

S Štajner, D Ferrés, M Shardlow, K North… - Frontiers in Artificial …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Even in highly-developed countries, as many as 15–30% of the population can only
understand texts written using a basic vocabulary. Their understanding of everyday texts is …

Complex: A new corpus for lexical complexity prediction from likert scale data

M Shardlow, M Cooper, M Zampieri - arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.07008, 2020 - arxiv.org
Predicting which words are considered hard to understand for a given target population is a
vital step in many NLP applications such as text simplification. This task is commonly …

Deep learning approaches to lexical simplification: A survey

K North, T Ranasinghe, M Shardlow… - Journal of Intelligent …, 2024 - Springer
Lexical Simplification (LS) is the task of substituting complex words within a sentence for
simpler alternatives while maintaining the sentence's original meaning. LS is the lexical …

Alector: A parallel corpus of simplified French texts with alignments of misreadings by poor and dyslexic readers

N Gala, A Tack, L Javourey-Drevet… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - aclanthology.org
In this paper, we present a new parallel corpus addressed to researchers, teachers, and
speech therapists interested in text simplification as a means of alleviating difficulties in …