The BEA 2024 shared task on the multilingual lexical simplification pipeline

M Shardlow, F Alva-Manchego… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - aclanthology.org
We report the findings of the 2024 Multilingual Lexical Simplification Pipeline shared task.
We released a new dataset comprising 5,927 instances of lexical complexity prediction and …

Multils: A multi-task lexical simplification framework

K North, T Ranasinghe, M Shardlow… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Lexical Simplification (LS) automatically replaces difficult to read words for easier
alternatives while preserving a sentence's original meaning. LS is a precursor to Text …

Deep learning approaches to lexical simplification: A survey

K North, T Ranasinghe, M Shardlow… - Journal of Intelligent …, 2024 - Springer
Lexical Simplification (LS) is the task of substituting complex words within a sentence for
simpler alternatives while maintaining the sentence's original meaning. LS is the lexical …

An extensible massively multilingual lexical simplification pipeline dataset using the MultiLS framework

M Shardlow, F Alva-Manchego… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - aclanthology.org
We present preliminary findings on the MultiLS dataset, developed in support of the 2024
Multilingual Lexical Simplification Pipeline (MLSP) Shared Task. This dataset currently …

Gmu at mlsp 2024: Multilingual lexical simplification with transformer models

D Goswami, K North, M Zampieri - … on Innovative Use of NLP for …, 2024 - aclanthology.org
This paper presents GMU's submission to the Multilingual Lexical Simplification Pipeline
(MLSP) shared task at the BEA workshop 2024. The task includes Lexical Complexity …

MultiLS: An End-to-End Lexical Simplification Framework

K North, T Ranasinghe, M Shardlow… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - aclanthology.org
Lexical Simplification (LS) automatically replaces difficult to read words for easier
alternatives while preserving a sentence's original meaning. Several datasets exist for LS …

Enhancing Lexical Complexity Prediction Through Few-Shot Learning with GPT-3

JA Ortiz-Zambrano, CH Espín-Riofrío… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - aclanthology.org
This paper describes an experiment to evaluate the ability of the GPT-3 language model to
classify terms regarding their lexical complexity. This was achieved through the creation and …

Computational Approaches to Lexical Complexity Prediction and Simplification

K North - 2024 - search.proquest.com
Lexical Simplification (LS) automatically replaces difficult to understand words with easier
alternatives whilst maintaining the original meaning of a sentence. LS serves as a …