SB: mmSystem - using decompositional semantics for lexical simplification

Authors:
Marilisa Amoia;Massimo Romanelli
Affiliations:
Linguistics University of Saarland;DFKI GmBH Saarbrcken, Germany
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

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Abstract

In this paper, we describe the system we submitted to the SemEval-2012 Lexical Simplification Task. Our system (mmSystem) combines word frequency with decompositional semantics criteria based on syntactic structure in order to rank candidate substitutes of lexical forms of arbitrary syntactic complexity (one-word, multi-word, etc.) in descending order of (cognitive) simplicity. We believe that the proposed approach might help to shed light on the interplay between linguistic features and lexical complexity in general.