UOW-SHEF: SimpLex -- lexical simplicity ranking based on contextual and psycholinguistic features

  • Authors:
  • Sujay Kumar Jauhar;Lucia Specia

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, UK;University of Sheffield, Regent Court, Portobello, Sheffield, UK

  • Venue:
  • SemEval '12 Proceedings of the First Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics - Volume 1: Proceedings of the main conference and the shared task, and Volume 2: Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
  • Year:
  • 2012
  • SemEval-2012 task 1: English Lexical Simplification

    SemEval '12 Proceedings of the First Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics - Volume 1: Proceedings of the main conference and the shared task, and Volume 2: Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation

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Abstract

This paper describes SimpLex, a Lexical Simplification system that participated in the English Lexical Simplification shared task at SemEval-2012. It operates on the basis of a linear weighted ranking function composed of context sensitive and psycholinguistic features. The system outperforms a very strong baseline, and ranked first on the shared task.