Learning a Lexical Simplifier Using Wikipedia

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Learning a Lexical Simplifier Using Wikipedia
Authors
Colby Horn
Cathryn Manduca
David Kauchak
Publication date
2014
DOI
10.3115/v1/P14-2075
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Learning a Lexical Simplifier Using Wikipedia - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2014, written by Colby Horn, Cathryn Manduca and David Kauchak.

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In this paper authors introduce a new lexical simplification approach. Authors extract over 30K candidate lexical simplifications by identifying aligned words in a sentencealigned corpus of English Wikipedia with Simple English Wikipedia. To apply these rules, authors learn a feature-based ranker using SVMrank trained on a set of labeled simplifications collected using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. Using human simplifications for evaluation, authors achieve a precision of 76% with changes in 86% of the examples.

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Horn, Colby; Manduca, Cathryn; Kauchak, David. (2014). "[[Learning a Lexical Simplifier Using Wikipedia]]".DOI: 10.3115/v1/P14-2075.

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Horn, Colby; Manduca, Cathryn; Kauchak, David. (2014). &quot;<a href="https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/Learning_a_Lexical_Simplifier_Using_Wikipedia">Learning a Lexical Simplifier Using Wikipedia</a>&quot;.DOI: 10.3115/v1/P14-2075.