@inproceedings{specia2012semeval-,
author = {Specia, Lucia and Jauhar, Sujay Kumar and Mihalcea, Rada},
title = {Semeval-2012 Task 1: English Lexical Simplification},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2012)},
year = {2012},
month = {June},
abstract = {We describe the English Lexical Simplification task at SemEval-2012. This is the first time such a shared task has been organized and its goal is to provide a framework for the evaluation of systems for lexical simplification and foster research on context-aware lexical simplification approaches. The task requires that annotators and systems rank a number of alternative substitutes – all deemed adequate – for a target word in context, according to how “simple” these substitutes are. The notion of simplicity is biased towards non-native speakers of English. Out of nine participating systems, the best scoring ones combine context-dependent and context-independent information, with the strongest individual contribution given by the frequency of the substitute regardless of its context. },
url = {http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/research/publication/semeval-2012-task-1-english-lexical-simplification/},
pages = {347-355},
}