FrenLyS: A Tool for the Automatic Simplification of French General Language Texts

Eva Rolin, Quentin Langlois, Patrick Watrin, Thomas François


Abstract
Lexical simplification (LS) aims at replacing words considered complex in a sentence by simpler equivalents. In this paper, we present the first automatic LS service for French, FrenLys, which offers different techniques to generate, select and rank substitutes. The paper describes the different methods proposed by our tool, which includes both classical approaches (e.g. generation of candidates from lexical resources, frequency filter, etc.) and more innovative approaches such as the exploitation of CamemBERT, a model for French based on the RoBERTa architecture. To evaluate the different methods, a new evaluation dataset for French is introduced.
Anthology ID:
2021.ranlp-1.135
Volume:
Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2021)
Month:
September
Year:
2021
Address:
Held Online
Venue:
RANLP
SIG:
Publisher:
INCOMA Ltd.
Note:
Pages:
1196–1205
Language:
URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.ranlp-1.135
DOI:
Bibkey:
Cite (ACL):
Eva Rolin, Quentin Langlois, Patrick Watrin, and Thomas François. 2021. FrenLyS: A Tool for the Automatic Simplification of French General Language Texts. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2021), pages 1196–1205, Held Online. INCOMA Ltd..
Cite (Informal):
FrenLyS: A Tool for the Automatic Simplification of French General Language Texts (Rolin et al., RANLP 2021)
Copy Citation:
PDF:
https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingestion-script-update/2021.ranlp-1.135.pdf