LeSS: A Computationally-Light Lexical Simplifier for Spanish

Sanja Stajner, Daniel Ibanez, Horacio Saggion


Abstract
Due to having knowledge of only basic vocabulary, many people cannot understand up-to-date written information and thus make informed decisions and fully participate in the society. We propose LeSS, a modular lexical simplification architecture that outperforms state-of-the-art lexical simplification systems for Spanish. In addition to its state-of-the-art performance, LeSS is computationally light, using much less disk space, CPU and GPU, and having faster loading and execution time than the transformer-based lexical simplification models which are predominant in the field.
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2023.ranlp-1.120
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Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing
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September
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2023
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Varna, Bulgaria
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Ruslan Mitkov, Galia Angelova
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RANLP
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INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria
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1132–1142
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.ranlp-1.120
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Sanja Stajner, Daniel Ibanez, and Horacio Saggion. 2023. LeSS: A Computationally-Light Lexical Simplifier for Spanish. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, pages 1132–1142, Varna, Bulgaria. INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria.
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