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SLSP 2013: Statistical Language and Speech Processing pp 236–247Cite as

Comparing Resources for Spanish Lexical Simplification

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In this paper we study the effect of different lexical resources and strategies for selecting synonyms in a lexical simplification system for the Spanish language. The resources used for the experiments are the Spanish EuroWordNet, the Spanish Open Thesaurus and a combination of both. As for the synonym selection strategies, we have used both local and global contexts for word sense disambiguation. We present a novel evaluation framework in lexical simplification that takes into account the level of ambiguity of the word to be simplified. The evaluation compares various instances of the lexical simplification system, a gold standard, and a baseline. On the basis of our results we recommend different resources and word sense disambiguation methods depending on the ambiguity level of the target word to be simplified.

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  1. Department of Information and Communication Technologies, University Pompeu Fabra, C/Tanger 122, 08018, Barcelona, Spain

    Horacio Saggion, Stefan Bott & Luz Rello

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  1. Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Avinguda Catalunya, 35, 43002, Tarragona, Spain

    Adrian-Horia Dediu  & Carlos Martín-Vide  & 

  2. Research Institute for Information and Language Processing, Research Group in Computational Linguistics, University of Wolverhampton, WV1 1SB, Wolverhampton, UK

    Ruslan Mitkov

  3. Fakultät für Informatik, Institut für Wissens- und Sprachverarbeitung, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Universitätsplatz 2, 39106, Magdeburg, Germany

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Saggion, H., Bott, S., Rello, L. (2013). Comparing Resources for Spanish Lexical Simplification. In: Dediu, AH., Martín-Vide, C., Mitkov, R., Truthe, B. (eds) Statistical Language and Speech Processing. SLSP 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7978. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39593-2_21

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