@InProceedings{billami-franois-gala:2018:C18-1,
  author    = {BILLAMI, Mokhtar Boumedyen  and  François, Thomas  and  Gala, Nuria},
  title     = {ReSyf: a French lexicon with ranked synonyms},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics},
  month     = {August},
  year      = {2018},
  address   = {Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {2570--2581},
  abstract  = {In this article, we present ReSyf, a lexical resource of monolingual synonyms ranked according to their difficulty to be read and understood by native learners of French. The synonyms come from an existing lexical network and they have been semantically disambiguated and refined. A ranking algorithm, based on a wide range of linguistic features and validated through an evaluation campaign with human annotators, automatically sorts the synonyms corresponding to a given word sense by reading difficulty. ReSyf is freely available and will be integrated into a web platform for reading assistance. It can also be applied to perform lexical simplification of French texts.},
  url       = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/C18-1218}
}