SB: mmSystem- Using Decompositional Semantics for Lexical Simplification
Marilisa Amoia, Massimo Romanelli · 2013
In this paper, we describe the system we submitted to the SemEval-2012 Lexical Simplification Task. Our system (mmSystem) combines word frequency with decompositional semantics criteria based on syntactic structure in order to rank candidate substitutes of lexical forms of arbitrary syntactic complexity (oneword, multi-word, etc.) in descending order of (cognitive) simplicity. We believe that the proposed approach might help to shed light on the interplay between linguistic features and lexical complexity in general. 1