Abstract
This paper introduces Japanese lexical simplification. Japanese lexical simplification is the task of replacing difficult words in a given sentence to produce a new sentence with simple words without changing the original meaning of the sentence. We purpose a method of supervised regression learning to estimate difficulty ordering of words with statistical features obtained from two types of Japanese corpora. For the similarity of words, we use a Japanese thesaurus and dependency-based word embeddings. Evaluation of the proposed method is performed by comparing the difficulty ordering of the words.- Anthology ID:
- W16-4912
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Natural Language Processing Techniques for Educational Applications (NLPTEA2016)
- Month:
- December
- Year:
- 2016
- Address:
- Osaka, Japan
- Editors:
- Hsin-Hsi Chen, Yuen-Hsien Tseng, Vincent Ng, Xiaofei Lu
- Venue:
- NLP-TEA
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee
- Note:
- Pages:
- 92–96
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/W16-4912
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Muhaimin Hading, Yuji Matsumoto, and Maki Sakamoto. 2016. Japanese Lexical Simplification for Non-Native Speakers. In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Natural Language Processing Techniques for Educational Applications (NLPTEA2016), pages 92–96, Osaka, Japan. The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee.
- Cite (Informal):
- Japanese Lexical Simplification for Non-Native Speakers (Hading et al., NLP-TEA 2016)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-3/W16-4912.pdf