RALS: Resources and Baselines for Romanian Automatic Lexical Simplification

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20078v1
• Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2026 12:31:43 GMT
• Title: RALS: Resources and Baselines for Romanian Automatic Lexical Simplification
• Abstract summary: This dataset jointly covers both lexical complexity prediction (LCP) annotations and lexical simplification (LS) approaches for Romanian.<n>We propose a methodology for ordering simplification suggestions using a pairwise ranking approximation method.<n>We provide human lexical complexity annotations for 3,921 word samples in context.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: We introduce the first dataset that jointly covers both lexical complexity prediction (LCP) annotations and lexical simplification (LS) for Romanian, along with a comparison of lexical simplification approaches. We propose a methodology for ordering simplification suggestions using a pairwise ranking approximation method, arranging candidates from simple to complex based on a separate set of human judgments. In addition, we provide human lexical complexity annotations for 3,921 word samples in context. Finally, we explore several novel pipelines for complexity prediction and simplification and present the first text simplification system for Romanian.

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