Complex words identification using word-level features for SemEval-2020 Task 1

Jenny A. Ortiz-Zambrano, Arturo Montejo-Ráez


Abstract
This article describes a system to predict the complexity of words for the Lexical Complexity Prediction (LCP) shared task hosted at SemEval 2021 (Task 1) with a new annotated English dataset with a Likert scale. Located in the Lexical Semantics track, the task consisted of predicting the complexity value of the words in context. A machine learning approach was carried out based on the frequency of the words and several characteristics added at word level. Over these features, a supervised random forest regression algorithm was trained. Several runs were performed with different values to observe the performance of the algorithm. For the evaluation, our best results reported a M.A.E score of 0.07347, M.S.E. of 0.00938, and R.M.S.E. of 0.096871. Our experiments showed that, with a greater number of characteristics, the precision of the classification increases.
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2021.semeval-1.11
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Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2021)
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August
Year:
2021
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Online
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Alexis Palmer, Nathan Schneider, Natalie Schluter, Guy Emerson, Aurelie Herbelot, Xiaodan Zhu
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SemEval
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SIGLEX
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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126–129
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.semeval-1.11
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.semeval-1.11
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Jenny A. Ortiz-Zambrano and Arturo Montejo-Ráez. 2021. Complex words identification using word-level features for SemEval-2020 Task 1. In Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2021), pages 126–129, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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