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title = "Lexical Simplification with Neural Ranking",
author = "Paetzold, Gustavo and
Specia, Lucia",
editor = "Lapata, Mirella and
Blunsom, Phil and
Koller, Alexander",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the {E}uropean Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 2, Short Papers",
month = apr,
year = "2017",
address = "Valencia, Spain",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/E17-2006",
pages = "34--40",
abstract = "We present a new Lexical Simplification approach that exploits Neural Networks to learn substitutions from the Newsela corpus - a large set of professionally produced simplifications. We extract candidate substitutions by combining the Newsela corpus with a retrofitted context-aware word embeddings model and rank them using a new neural regression model that learns rankings from annotated data. This strategy leads to the highest Accuracy, Precision and F1 scores to date in standard datasets for the task.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Lexical Simplification with Neural Ranking
%A Paetzold, Gustavo
%A Specia, Lucia
%Y Lapata, Mirella
%Y Blunsom, Phil
%Y Koller, Alexander
%S Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 2, Short Papers
%D 2017
%8 April
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Valencia, Spain
%F paetzold-specia-2017-lexical
%X We present a new Lexical Simplification approach that exploits Neural Networks to learn substitutions from the Newsela corpus - a large set of professionally produced simplifications. We extract candidate substitutions by combining the Newsela corpus with a retrofitted context-aware word embeddings model and rank them using a new neural regression model that learns rankings from annotated data. This strategy leads to the highest Accuracy, Precision and F1 scores to date in standard datasets for the task.
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%P 34-40
Markdown (Informal)
[Lexical Simplification with Neural Ranking](https://aclanthology.org/E17-2006) (Paetzold & Specia, EACL 2017)
ACL
- Gustavo Paetzold and Lucia Specia. 2017. Lexical Simplification with Neural Ranking. In Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 2, Short Papers, pages 34–40, Valencia, Spain. Association for Computational Linguistics.