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title = "{J}apanese Lexical Simplification for Non-Native Speakers",
author = "Hading, Muhaimin and
Matsumoto, Yuji and
Sakamoto, Maki",
editor = "Chen, Hsin-Hsi and
Tseng, Yuen-Hsien and
Ng, Vincent and
Lu, Xiaofei",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Natural Language Processing Techniques for Educational Applications ({NLPTEA}2016)",
month = dec,
year = "2016",
address = "Osaka, Japan",
publisher = "The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/W16-4912/",
pages = "92--96",
abstract = "This paper introduces Japanese lexical simplification. Japanese lexical simplification is the task of replacing difficult words in a given sentence to produce a new sentence with simple words without changing the original meaning of the sentence. We purpose a method of supervised regression learning to estimate difficulty ordering of words with statistical features obtained from two types of Japanese corpora. For the similarity of words, we use a Japanese thesaurus and dependency-based word embeddings. Evaluation of the proposed method is performed by comparing the difficulty ordering of the words."
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%T Japanese Lexical Simplification for Non-Native Speakers
%A Hading, Muhaimin
%A Matsumoto, Yuji
%A Sakamoto, Maki
%Y Chen, Hsin-Hsi
%Y Tseng, Yuen-Hsien
%Y Ng, Vincent
%Y Lu, Xiaofei
%S Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Natural Language Processing Techniques for Educational Applications (NLPTEA2016)
%D 2016
%8 December
%I The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee
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%P 92-96
Markdown (Informal)
[Japanese Lexical Simplification for Non-Native Speakers](https://aclanthology.org/W16-4912/) (Hading et al., NLP-TEA 2016)
ACL
- Muhaimin Hading, Yuji Matsumoto, and Maki Sakamoto. 2016. Japanese Lexical Simplification for Non-Native Speakers. In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Natural Language Processing Techniques for Educational Applications (NLPTEA2016), pages 92–96, Osaka, Japan. The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee.