RS_GV at SemEval-2021 Task 1: Sense Relative Lexical Complexity Prediction

Regina Stodden, Gayatri Venugopal


Abstract
We present the technical report of the system called RS_GV at SemEval-2021 Task 1 on lexical complexity prediction of English words. RS_GV is a neural network using hand-crafted linguistic features in combination with character and word embeddings to predict target words’ complexity. For the generation of the hand-crafted features, we set the target words in relation to their senses. RS_GV predicts the complexity well of biomedical terms but it has problems with the complexity prediction of very complex and very simple target words.
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2021.semeval-1.82
Volume:
Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2021)
Month:
August
Year:
2021
Address:
Online
Editors:
Alexis Palmer, Nathan Schneider, Natalie Schluter, Guy Emerson, Aurelie Herbelot, Xiaodan Zhu
Venue:
SemEval
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SIGLEX
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
640–649
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.semeval-1.82
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.semeval-1.82
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Regina Stodden and Gayatri Venugopal. 2021. RS_GV at SemEval-2021 Task 1: Sense Relative Lexical Complexity Prediction. In Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2021), pages 640–649, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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RS_GV at SemEval-2021 Task 1: Sense Relative Lexical Complexity Prediction (Stodden & Venugopal, SemEval 2021)
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