Search Results for author: Kai North

Found 13 papers, 2 papers with code

Deep Learning Approaches to Lexical Simplification: A Survey

no code implementations19 May 2023 Kai North, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Matthew Shardlow, Marcos Zampieri

To reflect these recent advances, we present a comprehensive survey of papers published between 2017 and 2023 on LS and its sub-tasks with a special focus on deep learning.

Lexical Simplification Sentence +1

Lexical Complexity Prediction: An Overview

no code implementations8 Mar 2023 Kai North, Marcos Zampieri, Matthew Shardlow

Finally, we include brief sections on applications of lexical complexity prediction, such as readability and text simplification, together with related studies on languages other than English.

Lexical Complexity Prediction Reading Comprehension +1

Language Variety Identification with True Labels

1 code implementation2 Mar 2023 Marcos Zampieri, Kai North, Tommi Jauhiainen, Mariano Felice, Neha Kumari, Nishant Nair, Yash Bangera

Research has shown that this is a problematic assumption, particularly in the case of very similar languages (e. g., Croatian and Serbian) and national language varieties (e. g., Brazilian and European Portuguese), where texts may contain no distinctive marker of the particular language or variety.

Language Identification

Findings of the TSAR-2022 Shared Task on Multilingual Lexical Simplification

no code implementations6 Feb 2023 Horacio Saggion, Sanja Štajner, Daniel Ferrés, Kim Cheng SHEANG, Matthew Shardlow, Kai North, Marcos Zampieri

We report findings of the TSAR-2022 shared task on multilingual lexical simplification, organized as part of the Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility, and Readability TSAR-2022 held in conjunction with EMNLP 2022.

Lexical Simplification Text Simplification

Overview of the HASOC Subtrack at FIRE 2022: Offensive Language Identification in Marathi

no code implementations18 Nov 2022 Tharindu Ranasinghe, Kai North, Damith Premasiri, Marcos Zampieri

The widespread of offensive content online has become a reason for great concern in recent years, motivating researchers to develop robust systems capable of identifying such content automatically.

Language Identification

ALEXSIS-PT: A New Resource for Portuguese Lexical Simplification

no code implementations COLING 2022 Kai North, Marcos Zampieri, Tharindu Ranasinghe

To continue improving the performance of LS systems we introduce ALEXSIS-PT, a novel multi-candidate dataset for Brazilian Portuguese LS containing 9, 605 candidate substitutions for 387 complex words.

Lexical Simplification XLM-R

Lexical Simplification Benchmarks for English, Portuguese, and Spanish

2 code implementations12 Sep 2022 Sanja Stajner, Daniel Ferres, Matthew Shardlow, Kai North, Marcos Zampieri, Horacio Saggion

To showcase the usability of the dataset, we adapt two state-of-the-art lexical simplification systems with differing architectures (neural vs.\ non-neural) to all three languages (English, Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese) and evaluate their performances on our new dataset.

Lexical Simplification

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