Incorporating Multiword Expressions in Phrase Complexity Estimation
Sian Gooding, Shiva Taslimipoor, Ekaterina Kochmar
Abstract
Multiword expressions (MWEs) were shown to be useful in a number of NLP tasks. However, research on the use of MWEs in lexical complexity assessment and simplification is still an under-explored area. In this paper, we propose a text complexity assessment system for English, which incorporates MWE identification. We show that detecting MWEs using state-of-the-art systems improves predicting complexity on an established lexical complexity dataset.- Anthology ID:
- 2020.readi-1.3
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Tools and Resources to Empower People with REAding DIfficulties (READI)
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2020
- Address:
- Marseille, France
- Venues:
- LREC | READI | WS
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association
- Note:
- Pages:
- 14–19
- URL:
- https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.readi-1.3
- DOI:
- PDF:
- https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.readi-1.3.pdf
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