Complex Word Identification as a Sequence Labelling Task

Sian Gooding, Ekaterina Kochmar


Abstract
Complex Word Identification (CWI) is concerned with detection of words in need of simplification and is a crucial first step in a simplification pipeline. It has been shown that reliable CWI systems considerably improve text simplification. However, most CWI systems to date address the task on a word-by-word basis, not taking the context into account. In this paper, we present a novel approach to CWI based on sequence modelling. Our system is capable of performing CWI in context, does not require extensive feature engineering and outperforms state-of-the-art systems on this task.
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P19-1109
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Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Month:
July
Year:
2019
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Florence, Italy
Editors:
Anna Korhonen, David Traum, Lluís Màrquez
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1148–1153
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https://aclanthology.org/P19-1109
DOI:
10.18653/v1/P19-1109
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Sian Gooding and Ekaterina Kochmar. 2019. Complex Word Identification as a Sequence Labelling Task. In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 1148–1153, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Complex Word Identification as a Sequence Labelling Task (Gooding & Kochmar, ACL 2019)
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