Daniel Ibanez


2023

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LeSS: A Computationally-Light Lexical Simplifier for Spanish
Sanja Stajner | Daniel Ibanez | Horacio Saggion
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing

Due to having knowledge of only basic vocabulary, many people cannot understand up-to-date written information and thus make informed decisions and fully participate in the society. We propose LeSS, a modular lexical simplification architecture that outperforms state-of-the-art lexical simplification systems for Spanish. In addition to its state-of-the-art performance, LeSS is computationally light, using much less disk space, CPU and GPU, and having faster loading and execution time than the transformer-based lexical simplification models which are predominant in the field.