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Yudong Xie

2 accepted papers

2022

Enhancing Automatic Readability Assessment with Pre-training and Soft Labels for Ordinal Regression

EMNLP 2022finding

The readability assessment task aims to assign a difficulty grade to a text. While neural models have recently demonstrated impressive performance, most do not exploit the ordinal nature of the difficulty grades, and make little effort for model initialization to facilitate fine-tuning. We address t…