MultiLS-SP/CA: Lexical Complexity Prediction and Lexical Simplification Resources for Catalan and Spanish

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07814v1
• Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 14:57:19 GMT
• Title: MultiLS-SP/CA: Lexical Complexity Prediction and Lexical Simplification Resources for Catalan and Spanish
• Authors: Stefan Bott, Horacio Saggion, Nelson Peréz Rojas, Martin Solis Salazar, Saul Calderon Ramirez,
• Abstract summary: This paper presents MultiLS-SP/CA, a novel dataset for lexical simplification in Spanish and Catalan. This dataset represents the first of its kind in Catalan and a substantial addition to the sparse data on automatic lexical simplification.
• Score: 3.8704030295841534
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Automatic lexical simplification is a task to substitute lexical items that may be unfamiliar and difficult to understand with easier and more common words. This paper presents MultiLS-SP/CA, a novel dataset for lexical simplification in Spanish and Catalan. This dataset represents the first of its kind in Catalan and a substantial addition to the sparse data on automatic lexical simplification which is available for Spanish. Specifically, MultiLS-SP is the first dataset for Spanish which includes scalar ratings of the understanding difficulty of lexical items. In addition, we describe experiments with this dataset, which can serve as a baseline for future work on the same data.

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