Detecting Multiword Expression Type Helps Lexical Complexity Assessment (2020.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Multiword expressions (MWEs) represent lexemes that should be treated as single lexical units due to their idiosyncratic nature. |
| Approach: | They re-annotate a complex word identification shared task 2018 dataset . they find that a lexical complexity assessment system benefits from the information . |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset provides valuable information for the text simplification community. |
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