For the sake of simplicity: Unsupervised extraction of lexical simplifications from Wikipedia
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natural language processingRecord type:
paperdataset
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YatPanDanLee
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We report on work in progress on extracting lexical simplifications (e.g., "collaborate" -> "work together"), focusing on utilizing edit histories in Simple English Wikipedia for this task. We consider two main approaches: (1) deriving simplification probabilities via an edit model that accounts for a mixture of different operations, and (2) using metadata to focus on edits that are more likely to be simplification operations. We find our methods to outperform a reasonable baseline and yield many high-quality lexical simplifications not included in an independently-created manually prepared list. 4 pp; data available at cs.cornell.edu
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