Lexical complexity plays an important role in reading comprehension. lexical complexity
prediction (LCP) can not only be used as a part of Lexical Simplification systems, but also as …

In this article, we present ReSyf, a lexical resource of monolingual synonyms ranked
according to their difficulty to be read and understood by native learners of French. The …

In this paper we present work-in-progress where we investigate the usefulness of previously
created word lists to the task of single-word lexical complexity analysis and prediction of the …

This paper describes a CEFR-based classifier of single-word and multi-word lexical
complexity in context from a second language learner perspective in English and in French …

Innovative resources for teaching vocabulary have emerged during the last decades, among
which the so-called 'graded resources', ie lexicons or inventories where linguistic forms have …

In this thesis, we investigate how natural language processing (NLP) tools and techniques
can be applied to vocabulary aimed at second language learners of Swedish in order to …

The purpose of our work is to create a rated lexicon in French useful for automatic text
simplification of medical texts. Currently, the lexicon contains 11,272 pairs {technical term; …

This article presents a corpus-based evaluation of 13 lexical diversity metrics as measures
of longitudinal progression in written productions of learners of French as third language …

This study examines two possibilities of using the FLELex graded lexicon for the automated
assessment of text complexity in French as a foreign language learning. From the lexical …

Text readability assessment aims to automatically evaluate the degree of reading difficulty of
a given text for a specific group of readers. Most of the previous studies considered it as a …