UOW-SHEF: SimpLex – Lexical Simplicity Ranking based on Contextual and Psycholinguistic Features
- Sujay Kumar Jauhar ,
- Lucia Specia
Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2012) |
This paper describes SimpLex, a Lexical Simplification system that participated in the English Lexical Simplification shared task at SemEval-2012. It operates on the basis of a linear weighted ranking function composed of context sensitive and psycholinguistic features. The system outperforms a very strong baseline, and ranked first on the shared task.