TMU-HIT at MLSP 2024: How Well Can GPT-4 Tackle Multilingual Lexical Simplification?

Taisei Enomoto, Hwichan Kim, Tosho Hirasawa, Yoshinari Nagai, Ayako Sato, Kyotaro Nakajima, Mamoru Komachi

Abstract
Lexical simplification (LS) is a process of replacing complex words with simpler alternatives to help readers understand sentences seamlessly. This process is divided into two primary subtasks: assessing word complexities and replacing high-complexity words with simpler alternatives. Employing task-specific supervised data to train models is a prevalent strategy for addressing these subtasks. However, such approach cannot be employed for low-resource languages. Therefore, this paper introduces a multilingual LS pipeline system that does not rely on supervised data. Specifically, we have developed systems based on GPT-4 for each subtask. Our systems demonstrated top-class performance on both tasks in many languages. The results indicate that GPT-4 can effectively assess lexical complexity and simplify complex words in a multilingual context with high quality.
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2024.bea-1.52
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Proceedings of the 19th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2024)
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June
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2024
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Mexico City, Mexico
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Ekaterina Kochmar, Marie Bexte, Jill Burstein, Andrea Horbach, Ronja Laarmann-Quante, Anaïs Tack, Victoria Yaneva, Zheng Yuan
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BEA
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SIGEDU
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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590–598
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Taisei Enomoto, Hwichan Kim, Tosho Hirasawa, Yoshinari Nagai, Ayako Sato, Kyotaro Nakajima, and Mamoru Komachi. 2024. TMU-HIT at MLSP 2024: How Well Can GPT-4 Tackle Multilingual Lexical Simplification?. In Proceedings of the 19th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2024), pages 590–598, Mexico City, Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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TMU-HIT at MLSP 2024: How Well Can GPT-4 Tackle Multilingual Lexical Simplification? (Enomoto et al., BEA 2024)
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