Lexical simplification via single-word generation

doi:10.1007/s11704-023-2744-2

Front. Comput. Sci.

2023, Vol. 17

Issue (6) : 176347 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11704-023-2744-2

Artificial Intelligence

Lexical simplification via single-word generation

Jipeng QIANG(

), Yang LI, Yun LI, Yunhao YUAN, Yi ZHU

Department of Computer Science, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225127, China

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Corresponding Author(s): Jipeng QIANG

Just Accepted Date: 22 March 2023 Issue Date: 17 April 2023

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Jipeng QIANG,Yang LI,Yun LI, et al. Lexical simplification via single-word generation[J]. Front. Comput. Sci., 2023, 17(6): 176347.

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Tab.1 Evaluation result of simplification candidate generation

Tab.2 Full pipeline evaluation results using precision and accuracy

Pred	Freq	BARTS	LexMTurk		BenchLS		NNSeval
Pred	Freq	BARTS	PR	ACC	PR	ACC	PR	ACC
$√$	$×$	$×$	0.738	0.738	0.658	0.658	0.469	0.469
$×$	$√$	$×$	0.372	0.372	0.254	0.254	0.117	0.117
$×$	$×$	$√$	0.832	0.832	0.680	0.680	0.506	0.506
$×$	$√$	$√$	0.850	0.850	0.675	0.675	0.448	0.448
$√$	$×$	$√$	0.842	0.842	0.719	0.719	0.502	0.502
$√$	$√$	$×$	0.756	0.756	0.644	0.644	0.397	0.397
$√$	$√$	$√$	0.874	0.874	0.723	0.723	0.527	0.527

Tab.3 Results of ranking feature ablation study

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