Lexical Simplification with the Deep Structured Similarity Model

Lis Pereira, Xiaodong Liu, John Lee


Abstract
We explore the application of a Deep Structured Similarity Model (DSSM) to ranking in lexical simplification. Our results show that the DSSM can effectively capture fine-grained features to perform semantic matching when ranking substitution candidates, outperforming the state-of-the-art on two standard datasets used for the task.
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I17-2073
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Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers)
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November
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2017
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Taipei, Taiwan
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IJCNLP
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Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing
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430–435
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Lis Pereira, Xiaodong Liu, and John Lee. 2017. Lexical Simplification with the Deep Structured Similarity Model. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers), pages 430–435, Taipei, Taiwan. Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing.
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Lexical Simplification with the Deep Structured Similarity Model (Pereira et al., IJCNLP 2017)
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