Must-read papers on LS

LS: Lexical Simplification

Contributed by Jipeng Qiang.

Content

1. Complex Word Identification
2. Lexical Simlification
3. Datasets
4. Survey
5. LS in other languages
Japanese	Spanish
Swedish	Portuguese

Complex Word Identification

1. Complex Word Identification as a Sequence Labelling Task. ACL 2019. paper

   Sian Gooding, Ekaterina Kochmar.

2. Personalizing Lexical Simplification. COLING 2018. paper

   John Lee, Chak Yan Yeung.

3. A Report on the ComplexWord Identification Shared Task 2018. NAACL-HLT 2018. paper

   Seid Muhie Yimam, Chris Biemann1, Shervin Malmasi, Gustavo H. Paetzold, Lucia Specia, Sanja Štajner, Anais Tack, Marcos Zampieri.

4. SV000gg at SemEval-2016 Task 11: Heavy Gauge ComplexWord Identification with System Voting. SemEval 2016. paper

   Gustavo Henrique Paetzold, Lucia Specia

Lexical Simplification

1. Lexical Simplification with Pretrained Encoders. AAAI 2020. paper

   Jipeng Qiang, Yun Li, Yi Zhu, Yunhao Yuan, Xindong Wu.

2. BERT-based Lexical Substitution. ACL 2019. paper

   Wangchunshu Zhou, Tao Ge, Ke Xu, Furu Wei, Ming Zhou.

3. Recursive Context-Aware Lexical Simplification. EMNLP 2019. paper

   Sian Gooding, Ekaterina Kochmar.

4. Simplification Using Paraphrases and Context-based Lexical Substitution. NAACL-HLT 2018. paper

   Reno Kriz, Eleni Miltsakaki, Marianna Apidianaki, and Chris Callison-Burch.

5. ** A Word-Complexity Lexicon and A Neural Readability Ranking Model for Lexical Simplification.** EMNLP 2018. paper

   RMounica Maddela, Wei Xu.

6. Lexical Simplification with Neural Ranking. EACL 2017. paper

   Gustavo Henrique Paetzold, Lucia Specia.

7. Simple PPDB: A Paraphrase Database for Simplification. ACL 2016. paper

   Ellie Pavlick, Chris Callison-Burch.

8. Unsupervised Lexical Simplification for Non-Native Speakers. AAAI 2016. paper

   Sian Gooding, Ekaterina Kochmar.

9. Simplifying Lexical Simplification: Do We Need Simplified Corpora?. ACL 2015. paper

   Goran Glavaš, Sanja Štajner.

10. Learning a Lexical Simplifier Using Wikipedia. ACL 2014. paper

    Colby Horn, Cathryn Manduca, David Kauchak.

11. Putting it Simply: a Context-Aware Approach to Lexical Simplification. ACL 2011. paper

    Or Biran, Samuel Brody, Noémie Elhadad.

12. The use of a psycholinguistic database in the simplification of text for aphasic readers. Linguistic Databases, 1998. [paper](https://github.com/qiang2100/LSPapers/1998-Linguistic Databases .pdf)

    Siobhan Devlin, John Tait.

Datasets

1. CEFR-based Lexical Simplification Dataset. LREC 2018. paper

   Satoru Uchida, Shohei Takada, Yuki Arase.

Survey papers

1. A Survey on Lexical Simplification. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2017. paper

   Gustavo H. Paetzold, Lucia Specia.

LS in other languages

Japanese

1. Controlled and Balanced Dataset for Japanese Lexical Simplification. ACL 2016. paper

   Tomonori Kodaira, Tomoyuki Kajiwara, Mamoru Komachi.

2. Selecting Proper Lexical Paraphrase for Children. ROCLING 2013. paper

   Tomoyuki Kajiwara, Hiroshi Matsumoto, Kazuhide Yamamoto.

Spanish

1. Can Spanish Be Simpler? LexSiS: Lexical Simplification for Spanish. COLING 2012. paper

   Stefan Bott, Luz Rello, Biljana DRNDAREVIC, Horacio Saggion.

Swedish

1. Automatic Text Simplification via Synonym Replacement. Master’s thesis, 2012. paper

   Robin Keskisärkkä