MANTIS at TSAR-2022 Shared Task: Improved Unsupervised Lexical Simplification with Pretrained Encoders

Autor:	Li, Xiaofei, Wiechmann, Daniel, Qiao, Yu, Kerz, Elma
Rok vydání:	2022
Předmět:	Computer Science - Computation and Language
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	In this paper we present our contribution to the TSAR-2022 Shared Task on Lexical Simplification of the EMNLP 2022 Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility, and Readability. Our approach builds on and extends the unsupervised lexical simplification system with pretrained encoders (LSBert) system in the following ways: For the subtask of simplification candidate selection, it utilizes a RoBERTa transformer language model and expands the size of the generated candidate list. For subsequent substitution ranking, it introduces a new feature weighting scheme and adopts a candidate filtering method based on textual entailment to maximize semantic similarity between the target word and its simplification. Our best-performing system improves LSBert by 5.9% accuracy and achieves second place out of 33 ranked solutions. Comment: accepted at EMNLP2022
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/2212.09855 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv