ReSyf: a French lexicon with ranked synonyms
Mokhtar Boumedyen Billami, Thomas François, Núria Gala, COLING 2018 · HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) · 2018
In this article, we present ReSyf, a lexical resource of monolingual synonyms ranked according to their difficulty to be read and understood by native learners of French. The synonyms come from an existing lexical network and they have been semantically disambiguated and refined. A ranking algorithm, based on a wide range of linguistic features and validated through an evaluation campaign with human annotators, automatically sorts the synonyms corresponding to a given word sense by reading difficulty. ReSyf is freely available and will be integrated into a web platform for reading assistance. It can also be applied to perform lexical simplification of French texts.