@inproceedings{gooding-etal-2020-incorporating,
    title = "Incorporating Multiword Expressions in Phrase Complexity Estimation",
    author = "Gooding, Sian  and
      Taslimipoor, Shiva  and
      Kochmar, Ekaterina",
    editor = "Gala, N{\'u}ria  and
      Wilkens, Rodrigo",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Tools and Resources to Empower People with REAding DIfficulties (READI)",
    month = may,
    year = "2020",
    address = "Marseille, France",
    publisher = "European Language Resources Association",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2020.readi-1.3/",
    pages = "14--19",
    language = "eng",
    ISBN = "979-10-95546-45-0",
    abstract = "Multiword expressions (MWEs) were shown to be useful in a number of NLP tasks. However, research on the use of MWEs in lexical complexity assessment and simplification is still an under-explored area. In this paper, we propose a text complexity assessment system for English, which incorporates MWE identification. We show that detecting MWEs using state-of-the-art systems improves predicting complexity on an established lexical complexity dataset."
}