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Lexical simplification (LS) is the task of automatically replacing complex words for easier ones making texts more accessible to various target populations (e.g. individuals with low literacy, individuals with learning disabilities, second…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Kai North , Marcos Zampieri , Tharindu Ranasinghe

Lexical Simplification (LS) is the task of replacing complex for simpler words in a sentence whilst preserving the sentence's original meaning. LS is the lexical component of Text Simplification (TS) with the aim of making texts more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Kai North , Tharindu Ranasinghe , Matthew Shardlow , Marcos Zampieri

Text is by far the most ubiquitous source of knowledge and information and should be made easily accessible to as many people as possible; however, texts often contain complex words that hinder reading comprehension and accessibility.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Kim Cheng Sheang , Horacio Saggion

For both human readers and pre-trained language models (PrLMs), lexical diversity may lead to confusion and inaccuracy when understanding the underlying semantic meanings of given sentences. By substituting complex words with simple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Rongzhou Bao , Jiayi Wang , Zhuosheng Zhang , Hai Zhao

Lexical simplification (LS) methods based on pretrained language models have made remarkable progress, generating potential substitutes for a complex word through analysis of its contextual surroundings. However, these methods require…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Kang Liu , Jipeng Qiang , Yun Li , Yunhao Yuan , Yi Zhu , Kaixun Hua

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 limited, which prevents them from taking an active role in society…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Sanja Stajner , Daniel Ferres , Matthew Shardlow , Kai North , Marcos Zampieri , Horacio Saggion

Lexical simplification (LS) aims to replace complex words in a given sentence with their simpler alternatives of equivalent meaning. Recently unsupervised lexical simplification approaches only rely on the complex word itself regardless of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Jipeng Qiang , Yun Li , Yi Zhu , Yunhao Yuan , Xindong Wu

Lexical simplification (LS) aims to replace complex words in a given sentence with their simpler alternatives of equivalent meaning, to simplify the sentence. Recently unsupervised lexical simplification approaches only rely on the complex…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Jipeng Qiang , Yun Li , Yi Zhu , Yunhao Yuan , Xindong Wu

Lexical Simplification (LS) methods use a three-step pipeline: complex word identification, substitute generation, and substitute ranking, each with separate evaluation datasets. We found large language models (LLMs) can simplify sentences…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Jipeng Qiang , Minjiang Huang , Yi Zhu , Yunhao Yuan , Chaowei Zhang , Xiaoye Ouyang

Text Simplification is an ongoing problem in Natural Language Processing, solution to which has varied implications. In conjunction with the TSAR-2022 Workshop @EMNLP2022 Lexical Simplification is the process of reducing the lexical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Nikita Katyal , Pawan Kumar Rajpoot

Lexical substitution (LS) aims at finding appropriate substitutes for a target word in a sentence. Recently, LS methods based on pretrained language models have made remarkable progress, generating potential substitutes for a target word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Jipeng Qiang , Kang Liu , Yun Li , Yunhao Yuan , Yi Zhu

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. Although the richness of vocabulary in Chinese makes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Jipeng Qiang , Xinyu Lu , Yun Li , Yunhao Yuan , Yang Shi , Xindong Wu

Text simplification (TS) refers to the process of reducing the complexity of a text while retaining its original meaning and key information. Existing work only shows that large language models (LLMs) have outperformed supervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Jipeng Qiang , Minjiang Huang , Yi Zhu , Yunhao Yuan , Chaowei Zhang , Kui Yu

Sentence Simplification aims to rephrase complex sentences into simpler sentences while retaining original meaning. Large Language models (LLMs) have demonstrated the ability to perform a variety of natural language processing tasks.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Yutao Feng , Jipeng Qiang , Yun Li , Yunhao Yuan , Yi Zhu

Cross-lingual summarization (CLS) is the task to produce a summary in one particular language for a source document in a different language. Existing methods simply divide this task into two steps: summarization and translation, leading to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Junnan Zhu , Qian Wang , Yining Wang , Yu Zhou , Jiajun Zhang , Shaonan Wang , Chengqing Zong

Lexical Simplification (LS) aims to simplify text at the lexical level. Existing methods rely heavily on annotated data, making it challenging to apply in low-resource scenarios. In this paper, we propose a novel LS method without parallel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Keren Tan , Kangyang Luo , Yunshi Lan , Zheng Yuan , Jinlong Shu

Automatic lexical simplification is a task to substitute lexical items that may be unfamiliar and difficult to understand with easier and more common words. This paper presents the description and analysis of two novel datasets for lexical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Stefan Bott , Horacio Saggion , Nelson Peréz Rojas , Martin Solis Salazar , Saul Calderon Ramirez

Fine-tuning Transformer-based approaches have recently shown exciting results on sentence simplification task. However, so far, no research has applied similar approaches to the Lexical Simplification (LS) task. In this paper, we present…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Kim Cheng Sheang , Daniel Ferrés , Horacio Saggion

Text simplification is essential for making complex content accessible to diverse audiences who face comprehension challenges. Yet, the limited availability of simplified materials creates significant barriers to personal and professional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Michael Färber , Parisa Aghdam , Kyuri Im , Mario Tawfelis , Hardik Ghoshal

Progress in sentence simplification has been hindered by a lack of labeled parallel simplification data, particularly in languages other than English. We introduce MUSS, a Multilingual Unsupervised Sentence Simplification system that does…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Louis Martin , Angela Fan , Éric de la Clergerie , Antoine Bordes , Benoît Sagot
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