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Lexical simplification

Lexical Simplification is a sub-task of text simplification. It can be defined as any lexical substitution task that reduce text complexity.
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Computational linguisticsNatural language processingSpeech recognition
Lexical substitutionSemEvalText simplification

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2018
2018
Lexical Simplification of Complex Scientific Terms
Lexical simplification is the task of replacing a complex term with its simpler alternatives. We propose a system to identify… 
2017
2017
Simplifying metaphorical language for young readers: A corpus study on news text
The paper presents first results of an ongoing project on text simplification focusing on linguistic metaphors. Based on an… 
2016
2016
A unified framework for translation and understanding allowing discriminative joint decoding for multilingual speech semantic interpretation
Review
2013
Review
2013
Book Reviews: Linguistic Fundamentals for Natural Language Processing: 100 Essentials from Morphology and Syntax by Emily M. Bender
Many NLP tasks have at their core a subtask of extracting the dependencieswho did what to whomfrom natural language sentences… 
2013
2013
SimpLe: Lexical Simplification using Word Sense Disambiguation
Sentence simplification aims to reduce the reading complexity of a sentence by incorporating more accessible vocabulary and… 
2013
2013
Comparing Resources for Spanish Lexical Simplification
In this paper we study the effect of different lexical resources and strategies for selecting synonyms in a lexical… 
2012
2012
Reducing Text Complexity through Automatic Lexical Simplification: an Empirical Study for Spanish
In this paper we present the result of a study directed towards developing a lexical simplification module of an automatic… 
2012
2012
SB: mmSystem - Using Decompositional Semantics for Lexical Simplification
In this paper, we describe the system we submitted to the SemEval-2012 Lexical Simplification Task. Our system (mmSystem… 
2011
2011
The Editing of Non-Native Texts and Translation : Evidence from The EUROCOM Corpus.
Il presente contributo intende esaminare l’attivita di revisione di testi redatti da autori non madrelingua al fine di verificare… 
2007
2007
UNC-CH at DUC 2007: Query Expansion, Lexical Simplification and Sentence Selection Strategies for Multi-Document Summarization
This paper describes the approach used in the UNC-CH system to generate a topicfocused summary of information reported in… 
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