This work aims to facilitate the understanding and readability of Spanish texts in a generic domain through the design of a lexical simplification system that provides support to the task of Complex Word Identification (CWI) and selection of a simpler substitute. Considering the limited resources available in Spanish, we explore different features that allow us to discern between a complex word and a simpler one. Some of these features are obtained from easy-to-read resources. The evaluation shows good results by obtaining an F1-Score of 0.7497 on the CWI Task with the BEA Workshop 2018 competition’s dataset.
Rodrigo Alarcón García, Lourdes Moreno López, Isabel Segura Bedmar, Paloma Martínez Fernández. (2019). Lexical simplification approach using easy-to-read resources. XXXV Congreso Internacional de la Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, SEPLN2019. 63, 95-102. Revista de Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, 1989-7553. 2019, Septiembre. [SCOPUS, Computer Science Applications, 0,235, Q3]. http://journal.sepln.org/sepln/ojs/ojs/index.php/pln/article/view/6099
If you want to see our results or try our code, go to cod\EASIERMAIN.ipynb.
This work was supported by the Research Program of the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness - Government of Spain, (DeepEMR project TIN2017-87548-C2-1-R). Contact address: ralarcon@inf.uc3m.es - lmoreno@inf.uc3m.es