Findings of the TSAR-2022 Shared Task on Multilingual Lexical Simplification
This work addresses lexical simplification for NLP researchers, but it is incremental as it reports on a shared task without introducing new methods.
The TSAR-2022 shared task tackled multilingual lexical simplification for English, Portuguese, and Spanish, with 14 teams submitting systems and results showing new benchmarks, where English achieved noticeably higher quantitative results than Spanish and Portuguese.
We report findings of the TSAR-2022 shared task on multilingual lexical simplification, organized as part of the Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility, and Readability TSAR-2022 held in conjunction with EMNLP 2022. The task called the Natural Language Processing research community to contribute with methods to advance the state of the art in multilingual lexical simplification for English, Portuguese, and Spanish. A total of 14 teams submitted the results of their lexical simplification systems for the provided test data. Results of the shared task indicate new benchmarks in Lexical Simplification with English lexical simplification quantitative results noticeably higher than those obtained for Spanish and (Brazilian) Portuguese.