NAACL 2021long19 citations
Word Complexity is in the Eye of the Beholder
Sian Gooding, Ekaterina Kochmar, Seid Muhie Yimam, Chris Biemann
Abstract
Lexical complexity is a highly subjective notion, yet this factor is often neglected in lexical simplification and readability systems which use a ”one-size-fits-all” approach. In this paper, we investigate which aspects contribute to the notion of lexical complexity in various groups of readers, focusing on native and non-native speakers of English, and how the notion of complexity changes depending on the proficiency level of a non-native reader. To facilitate reproducibility of our approach and foster further research into these aspects, we release a dataset of complex words annotated by readers with different backgrounds.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{gooding-etal-2021-word,
title = "Word Complexity is in the Eye of the Beholder",
author = "Gooding, Sian and
Kochmar, Ekaterina and
Yimam, Seid Muhie and
Biemann, Chris",
editor = "Toutanova, Kristina and
Rumshisky, Anna and
Zettlemoyer, Luke and
Hakkani-Tur, Dilek and
Beltagy, Iz and
Bethard, Steven and
Cotterell, Ryan and
Chakraborty, Tanmoy and
Zhou, Yichao",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies",
month = jun,
year = "2021",
address = "Online",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.naacl-main.351/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.naacl-main.351",
pages = "4439--4449"
}