LexComSpaL2: A Lexical Complexity Corpus for Spanish as a Foreign Language (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | 58,240 annotations are available for learners of Spanish as a foreign/second language (L2). |
| Approach: | They propose a corpus which can be employed to train personalised word-level difficulty classifiers for learners of Spanish as a foreign/second language (L2). |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can train personalised word-level difficulty classifiers for learners of Spanish as a foreign/second language (L2) using a customised version of the 5-point lexical complexity prediction scale. |
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