C3SL at SemEval-2021 Task 1: Predicting Lexical Complexity of Words in Specific Contexts with Sentence Embeddings
Raul Almeida, Hegler Correa Tissot, Marcos Didonet Del Fabro · 2021
We present our approach to predicting lexical complexity of words in specific contexts, as entered LCP Shared Task 1 at SemEval 2021.The approach consists of separating sentences into smaller chunks, embedding them with Sent2Vec, and reducing the embeddings into a simpler vector used as input to a neural network, the latter for predicting the complexity of words and expressions.Results show that the pre-trained sentence embeddings are not able to capture lexical complexity from the language when applied in cross-domain applications.