Lexical complexity prediction: An overview

K North, M Zampieri, M Shardlow - ACM Computing Surveys, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The occurrence of unknown words in texts significantly hinders reading comprehension. To
improve accessibility for specific target populations, computational modeling has been …

Cyberbullying detection: Utilizing social media features

A Bozyiğit, S Utku, E Nasibov - Expert Systems with Applications, 2021 - Elsevier
Cyberbullying has become a major problem around the world with the increasing usage of
social networks. In this direction, many studies are conducted to detect cyberbullying content …

A report on the complex word identification shared task 2018

SM Yimam, C Biemann, S Malmasi… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
We report the findings of the second Complex Word Identification (CWI) shared task
organized as part of the BEA workshop co-located with NAACL-HLT'2018. The second CWI …

Semeval-2021 task 1: Lexical complexity prediction

M Shardlow, R Evans, GH Paetzold… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
This paper presents the results and main findings of SemEval-2021 Task 1-Lexical
Complexity Prediction. We provided participants with an augmented version of the CompLex …

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 …

Complex: A new corpus for lexical complexity prediction from likert scale data

M Shardlow, M Cooper, M Zampieri - arxiv preprint arxiv:2003.07008, 2020 - arxiv.org
Predicting which words are considered hard to understand for a given target population is a
vital step in many NLP applications such as text simplification. This task is commonly …

CAMB at CWI shared task 2018: Complex word identification with ensemble-based voting

S Gooding, E Kochmar - … of the Thirteenth Workshop on Innovative …, 2018 - aclanthology.org
This paper presents the winning systems we submitted to the Complex Word Identification
Shared Task 2018. We describe our best performing systems' implementations and discuss …

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 …

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 …

Complex word identification based on frequency in a learner corpus

T Kajiwara, M Komachi - … of the thirteenth workshop on innovative …, 2018 - aclanthology.org
We introduce the TMU systems for the Complex Word Identification (CWI) Shared Task
2018. TMU systems use random forest classifiers and regressors whose features are the …