Abstract
What makes a text easy to read or not, depends on a variety of factors. One of the most prominent is, however, if the text contains easy, and avoids difficult, words. Deciding if a word is easy or difficult is not a trivial task, since it depends on characteristics of the word in itself as well as the reader, but it can be facilitated by the help of a corpus annotated with word frequencies and reading proficiency levels. In this paper, we present NyLLex, a novel lexical resource derived from books published by Sweden’s largest publisher for easy language texts. NyLLex consists of 6,668 entries, with frequency counts distributed over six reading proficiency levels. We show that NyLLex, with its novel source material aimed at individuals of different reading proficiency levels, can serve as a complement to already existing resources for Swedish.- Anthology ID:
- 2022.lrec-1.141
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
- Month:
- June
- Year:
- 2022
- Address:
- Marseille, France
- Editors:
- Nicoletta Calzolari, Frédéric Béchet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
- Venue:
- LREC
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association
- Note:
- Pages:
- 1326–1331
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.141
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Daniel Holmer and Evelina Rennes. 2022. NyLLex: A Novel Resource of Swedish Words Annotated with Reading Proficiency Level. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 1326–1331, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
- Cite (Informal):
- NyLLex: A Novel Resource of Swedish Words Annotated with Reading Proficiency Level (Holmer & Rennes, LREC 2022)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-1/2022.lrec-1.141.pdf