@inproceedings{bingel-bjerva-2018-cross,
    title = "Cross-lingual complex word identification with multitask learning",
    author = "Bingel, Joachim  and
      Bjerva, Johannes",
    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/ingest-emnlp/W18-0518/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W18-0518",
    pages = "166--174",
    abstract = "We approach the 2018 Shared Task on Complex Word Identification by leveraging a cross-lingual multitask learning approach. Our method is highly language agnostic, as evidenced by the ability of our system to generalize across languages, including languages for which we have no training data. In the shared task, this is the case for French, for which our system achieves the best performance. We further provide a qualitative and quantitative analysis of which words pose problems for our system."
}