Complex Word Identification

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• cs60075_team2 at SemEval-2021 Task 1 : Lexical Complexity Prediction using Transformer-based Language Models pre-trained on various text corpora
  4 Jun 2021 2 repositories listed
  This paper describes the performance of the team cs60075_team2 at SemEval 2021 Task 1 - Lexical Complexity Prediction.
• Investigating Large Language Models for Complex Word Identification in Multilingual and Multidomain Setups
  3 Nov 2024 1 repository listed
  Complex Word Identification (CWI) is an essential step in the lexical simplification task and has recently become a task on its own.
• Difficult for Whom? A Study of Japanese Lexical Complexity
  24 Oct 2024 1 repository listed
  The tasks of lexical complexity prediction (LCP) and complex word identification (CWI) commonly presuppose that difficult to understand words are shared by the target population.
• A User-Centered Evaluation of Spanish Text Simplification
  15 Aug 2023 1 repository listed
  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.
• Detecting Multiword Expression Type Helps Lexical Complexity Assessment
  12 May 2020 1 repository listed
  In this work, we re-annotate the Complex Word Identification Shared Task 2018 dataset of Yimam et al.
• CompLex: A New Corpus for Lexical Complexity Prediction from Likert Scale Data
  16 Mar 2020 1 repository listed
  With a few exceptions, previous studies have approached the task as a binary classification task in which systems predict a complexity value (complex vs.
• Complex Word Identification as a Sequence Labelling Task
  1 Jul 2019 1 repository listed
  Complex Word Identification (CWI) is concerned with detection of words in need of simplification and is a crucial first step in a simplification pipeline.
• Strong Baselines for Complex Word Identification across Multiple Languages
  11 Apr 2019 1 repository listed
  Complex Word Identification (CWI) is the task of identifying which words or phrases in a sentence are difficult to understand by a target audience.