SemEval-2010 task 2: cross-lingual lexical substitution

  • Authors:
  • Ravi Sinha;Diana McCarthy;Rada Mihalcea

  • Affiliations:
  • University of North Texas;University of Sussex;University of North Texas

  • Venue:
  • DEW '09 Proceedings of the Workshop on Semantic Evaluations: Recent Achievements and Future Directions
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this paper we describe the SemEval-2010 Cross-Lingual Lexical Substitution task, which is based on the English Lexical Substitution task run at SemEval-2007. In the English version of the task, annotators and systems had to find an alternative substitute word or phrase for a target word in context. In this paper we propose a task where the target word and contexts will be in English, but the substitutes will be in Spanish. In this paper we provide background and motivation for the task and describe how the dataset will differ from a machine translation task and previous word sense disambiguation tasks based on parallel data. We describe the annotation process and how we anticipate scoring the system output. We finish with some ideas for participating systems.