@inproceedings{alfter-pilan-2018-sb,
    title = "{SB}@{GU} at the Complex Word Identification 2018 Shared Task",
    author = "Alfter, David  and
      Pil{\'a}n, Ildik{\'o}",
    editor = "Tetreault, Joel  and
      Burstein, Jill  and
      Kochmar, Ekaterina  and
      Leacock, Claudia  and
      Yannakoudakis, Helen",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of {NLP} for Building Educational Applications",
    month = jun,
    year = "2018",
    address = "New Orleans, Louisiana",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/W18-0537/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W18-0537",
    pages = "315--321",
    abstract = "In this paper, we describe our experiments for the Shared Task on Complex Word Identification (CWI) 2018 (Yimam et al., 2018), hosted by the 13th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA) at NAACL 2018. Our system for English builds on previous work for Swedish concerning the classification of words into proficiency levels. We investigate different features for English and compare their usefulness using feature selection methods. For the German, Spanish and French data we use simple systems based on character n-gram models and show that sometimes simple models achieve comparable results to fully feature-engineered systems."
}