MultiLS-SP/CA: Lexical Complexity Prediction and Lexical Simplification Resources for Catalan and Spanish
Abstract
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 MultiLS-SP/CA, a novel dataset for lexical simplification in Spanish and Catalan. This dataset represents the first of its kind in Catalan and a substantial addition to the sparse data on automatic lexical simplification which is available for Spanish. Specifically, MultiLS-SP is the first dataset for Spanish which includes scalar ratings of the understanding difficulty of lexical items. In addition, we describe experiments with this dataset, which can serve as a baseline for future work on the same data.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- April 2024
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.2404.07814
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2404.07814
- Bibcode:
- 2024arXiv240407814B
- Keywords:
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- Computer Science - Computation and Language
- E-Print:
- Submitted to the 40th edition of the SEPLN Conference. Under Revision