A Report on the Complex Word Identification Shared Task 2018


Authors
Yimam, Seid Muhie, Biemann, Chris, Malmasi, Shervin, Paetzold, Gustavo, Specia, Lucia, Štajner, Sanja,  Tack, Anaïs, & Zampieri, Marcos
In
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications
Pages
66–78
Year
2018
Abstract
We report the findings of the second Complex Word Identification (CWI) shared task organized as part of the BEA workshop co-located with NAACL-HLT’2018. The second CWI shared task featured multilingual and multi-genre datasets divided into four tracks: English monolingual, German monolingual, Spanish monolingual, and a multilingual track with a French test set, and two tasks: binary classification and probabilistic classification. A total of 12 teams submitted their results in different task/track combinations and 11 of them wrote system description papers that are referred to in this report and appear in the BEA workshop proceedings.