Complex Word Identification as a Sequence Labelling Task
Sian Gooding, Ekaterina Kochmar · 2019
Complex Word Identification (CWI) is concerned with detection of words in need of simplification and is a crucial first step in a simplification pipeline.It has been shown that reliable CWI systems considerably improve text simplification.However, most CWI systems to date address the task on a word-by-word basis, not taking the context into account.In this paper, we present a novel approach to CWI based on sequence modelling.Our system is capable of performing CWI in context, does not require extensive feature engineering and outperforms state-of-the-art systems on this task.