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HECTOR: A Hybrid TExt SimplifiCation TOol for Raw Texts in French
Reducing the complexity of texts by applying an Automatic Text Simplification (ATS) system has been sparking interest inthe area of Natural Language Processing (NLP) for several years and a number of methods and evaluation campaigns haveemerged targeting lexical and syntactic transformations.
MWE for Essay Scoring English as a Foreign Language
Mastering a foreign language like English can bring better opportunities.
Is Attention Explanation? An Introduction to the Debate
In this paper, we provide a clear overview of the insights on the debate by critically confronting works from these different areas.
L’Attention est-elle de l’Explication ? Une Introduction au Débat (Is Attention Explanation ? An Introduction to the Debate )
Nous présentons un résumé en français et un résumé en anglais de l’article Is Attention Explanation ?
FABRA: French Aggregator-Based Readability Assessment toolkit
In this paper, we present the FABRA: readability toolkit based on the aggregation of a large number of readability predictor variables.
Assessing Linguistic Generalisation in Language Models: A Dataset for Brazilian Portuguese
These tasks are designed to evaluate how different language models generalise information related to grammatical structures and multiword expressions (MWEs), thus allowing for an assessment of whether the model has learned different linguistic phenomena.
Un corpus d'\'evaluation pour un syst\`eme de simplification discursive (An Evaluation Corpus for Automatic Discourse Simplification)
Nous pr{\'e}sentons un nouveau corpus simplifi{\'e}, disponible en fran{\c{c}}ais pour l{'}{\'e}valuation d{'}un syst{\`e}me de simplification discursive.
Coreference-Based Text Simplification
In this paper, we move forward in this direction and present a rule-based system for automatic text simplification, aiming at adapting French texts for dyslexic children.
Simplifying Coreference Chains for Dyslexic Children
This information is coded together with a coreference resolution system and a text rewritten tool in the proposed system, which comprise a coreference module specialised in written text and seven text transformation operations.
French Coreference for Spoken and Written Language
In this paper, we present an extensive comparison of several coreference resolution systems for French.
Investigating Productive and Receptive Knowledge: A Profile for Second Language Learning
We also attempted to automatically attribute a score to texts produced by learners, and the correlation results were encouraging, but there is still a good amount of room for improvement in this task.
Similarity Measures for the Detection of Clinical Conditions with Verbal Fluency Tasks
Semantic Verbal Fluency tests have been used in the detection of certain clinical conditions, like Dementia.
Using NLP for Enhancing Second Language Acquisition
This study presents SMILLE, a system that draws on the Noticing Hypothesis and on input enhancements, addressing the lack of salience of grammatical infor mation in online documents chosen by a given user.
Automatic Construction of Large Readability Corpora
In a comparison between shallow and deeper features, the former already produce F-measures of over 0. 75 for Portuguese texts, but the use of additional features results in even better results, in most cases.
B2SG: a TOEFL-like Task for Portuguese
They can be used as the basis for evaluating the accuracy of the similarity relations on distributional thesauri by comparing the proximity of the target word with the related and unrelated options and observing if the related word has the highest similarity value among them.
Multiword Expressions in Child Language
Focusing on compound nouns (CN), we then verify in a longitudinal study if there are differences in the distribution and compositionality of CNs in child-directed and child-produced sentences across ages.
