Japanese Lexical Simplification for Non-Native Speakers

Muhaimin Hading, Yuji Matsumoto, Maki Sakamoto


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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W16-4912
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Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Natural Language Processing Techniques for Educational Applications (NLPTEA2016)
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December
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2016
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Osaka, Japan
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Hsin-Hsi Chen, Yuen-Hsien Tseng, Vincent Ng, Xiaofei Lu
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NLP-TEA
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The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee
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92–96
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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.
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