Lexical Simplification

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• RoBERTa: A Robustly Optimized BERT Pretraining Approach
  26 Jul 2019 67 repositories listed Syntology ran 22 of 48 samples · 26 unverified · 23 pointer-only (licence)
  Language model pretraining has led to significant performance gains but careful comparison between different approaches is challenging.
• Multi-Word Lexical Simplification
  1 Dec 2020 3 repositories listed
  In this work we propose the task of multi-word lexical simplification, in which a sentence in natural language is made easier to understand by replacing its fragment with a simpler alternative, both of which can consist…
• Lexical Simplification with Pretrained Encoders
  14 Jul 2019 3 repositories listed
  Lexical simplification (LS) aims to replace complex words in a given sentence with their simpler alternatives of equivalent meaning.
• Lexical Simplification Benchmarks for English, Portuguese, and Spanish
  12 Sep 2022 2 repositories listed
  To showcase the usability of the dataset, we adapt two state-of-the-art lexical simplification systems with differing architectures (neural vs.\ non-neural) to all three languages (English, Spanish, and Brazilian…
• 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.
• Unsupervised Lexical Simplification with Context Augmentation
  1 Nov 2023 1 repository listed
  We propose a new unsupervised lexical simplification method that uses only monolingual data and pre-trained language models.
• Multilingual Lexical Simplification via Paraphrase Generation
  28 Jul 2023 1 repository listed
  After feeding the input sentence into the encoder of paraphrase modeling, we generate the substitutes based on a novel decoding strategy that concentrates solely on the lexical variations of the complex word.
• Multilingual Controllable Transformer-Based Lexical Simplification
  5 Jul 2023 1 repository listed
  Moreover, further evaluation of our approach on the part of the recent TSAR-2022 multilingual LS shared-task dataset shows that our model performs competitively when compared with the participating systems for English…
• Teaching the Pre-trained Model to Generate Simple Texts for Text Simplification
  21 May 2023 1 repository listed
  In this paper, we propose a new continued pre-training strategy to teach the pre-trained model to generate simple texts.
• Controllable Lexical Simplification for English
  6 Feb 2023 1 repository listed
  Fine-tuning Transformer-based approaches have recently shown exciting results on sentence simplification task.
• UniHD at TSAR-2022 Shared Task: Is Compute All We Need for Lexical Simplification?
  4 Jan 2023 1 repository listed
  Previous state-of-the-art models for lexical simplification consist of complex pipelines with several components, each of which requires deep technical knowledge and fine-tuned interaction to achieve its full potential.
• ALEXSIS: A Dataset for Lexical Simplification in Spanish
  1 Jun 2022 1 repository listed
  Lexical Simplification is the process of reducing the lexical complexity of a text by replacing difficult words with easier to read (or understand) expressions while preserving the original information and meaning.
• Chinese Lexical Simplification
  14 Oct 2020 1 repository listed
  Lexical simplification has attracted much attention in many languages, which is the process of replacing complex words in a given sentence with simpler alternatives of equivalent meaning.
• LSBert: A Simple Framework for Lexical Simplification
  25 Jun 2020 1 repository listed
  Lexical simplification (LS) aims to replace complex words in a given sentence with their simpler alternatives of equivalent meaning, to simplify the sentence.
• Specializing Unsupervised Pretraining Models for Word-Level Semantic Similarity
  5 Sep 2019 1 repository listed
  In this work, we complement such distributional knowledge with external lexical knowledge, that is, we integrate the discrete knowledge on word-level semantic similarity into pretraining.
• A Word-Complexity Lexicon and A Neural Readability Ranking Model for Lexical Simplification
  12 Oct 2018 1 repository listed
  Current lexical simplification approaches rely heavily on heuristics and corpus level features that do not always align with human judgment.
• Adversarial Propagation and Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer of Word Vector Specialization
  11 Sep 2018 1 repository listed
  Our adversarial post-specialization method propagates the external lexical knowledge to the full distributional space.
• Exploring Neural Text Simplification Models
  1 Jul 2017 1 repository listed
  Unlike the previously proposed automated TS systems, our neural text simplification (NTS) systems are able to simultaneously perform lexical simplification and content reduction.
• Controlled and Balanced Dataset for Japanese Lexical Simplification
  1 Aug 2016 1 repository listed
• Phrasal Substitution of Idiomatic Expressions
  1 Jun 2016 1 repository listed

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