Lexical Complexity Prediction and Lexical Simplification for Catalan and Spanish: Resource Creation, Quality Assessment, and Ethical Considerations

Horacio Saggion, Stefan Bott, Sandra Szasz, Nelson Pérez, Saúl Calderón, Martín Solís


Abstract
Automatic lexical simplification is a task to substitute lexical items that may be unfamiliar and difficult to understand with easier and more common words. This paper presents the description and analysis of two novel datasets for lexical simplification in Spanish and Catalan. This dataset represents the first of its kind in Catalan and a substantial addition to the sparse data on automatic lexical simplification which is available for Spanish. Specifically, it is the first dataset for Spanish which includes scalar ratings of the understanding difficulty of lexical items. In addition, we present a detailed analysis aiming at assessing the appropriateness and ethical dimensions of the data for the lexical simplification task.
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2024.tsar-1.9
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Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility and Readability (TSAR 2024)
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November
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2024
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Miami, Florida, USA
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Matthew Shardlow, Horacio Saggion, Fernando Alva-Manchego, Marcos Zampieri, Kai North, Sanja Štajner, Regina Stodden
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TSAR
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Horacio Saggion, Stefan Bott, Sandra Szasz, Nelson Pérez, Saúl Calderón, and Martín Solís. 2024. Lexical Complexity Prediction and Lexical Simplification for Catalan and Spanish: Resource Creation, Quality Assessment, and Ethical Considerations. In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility and Readability (TSAR 2024), pages 82–94, Miami, Florida, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Lexical Complexity Prediction and Lexical Simplification for Catalan and Spanish: Resource Creation, Quality Assessment, and Ethical Considerations (Saggion et al., TSAR 2024)
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