LSPG 🏡

Implementation of our paper "Multilingual Lexical Simplification via Paraphrase Generation"

Dependencies&Installation 📌

This project is mainly buld on transformers, with customized modification of scripts.To start, you need to clone this repo and install transformers firstly. Use the following pip command in transformers/:
pip install -e .

Other dependencies 📌

pip install -r requirements.txt

Pretrained model 📌

You need download the following pretrianed models and put them into folder model/

NLLB

fastText embedding

How to run 🚲

English

sh sh_EN_LS.sh

Spanish

sh sh_ES_LS.sh

Portuguese

sh sh_PT_LS.sh

Evaluation Scripts 📌

Please refer here

Results 📌

Results on TSAR2022 multilingual LS shared task

Futher Update 🚀

PromLS: LLM-based LS method

sh_EN_LS.promls.sh sh_ES_LS.promls.sh sh_PT_LS.promls.sh

MultiLSPG: multi-word LS method

sh_multiword_LS.sh

MultiPromLS: LLM-based multi-word LS method

sh_multiword_LS.promls.sh

Citation

@inproceedings{liu-etal-2023-LSPG,
    title = "Multilingual Lexical Simplification via Paraphrase Generation",
    author = "Liu, Kang and Qiang, Jipeng and Li, Yun  and Yuan, Yunhao  and Zhu, Yi",
    booktitle = "ECAI",
    year = "2023"
    }