Analysis of vocabulary difficulty using Wiktionary
Analysis of vocabulary difficulty using Wiktionary
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使用维基词典分析词汇难度
DOI：
10.21437/slate.2009-26
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发表时间：
2009
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
Mari Ostendorf
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作者：
J. Medero;Mari Ostendorf
评估词汇难度对于寻找和创作低阅读水平的文本很有用。先前的工作主要集中在单词长度和词频等特征上。在这项工作中，我们使用从维基词典条目中提取的特征来探索其他线索是否有用。比较标准英语和简单英语维基百科中同类文章中的单词，我们发现出现在标准英语而不是简单英语中的单词往往具有更短的定义，更少的词性类型和词义，并且它们被翻译成更少的语言。
Assessing vocabulary difficulty is useful for finding and creating texts at low reading levels. Prior work has focused on characteristics such as word length and word frequency. In this work, we explore whether other cues might be useful, using features extracted from Wiktionary entries. Comparing words in comparable articles in Standard and Simple English Wikipedia, we find that words that appear in Standard but not Simple English tend to have shorter definitions, fewer part-of-speech types and word senses, and fewer languages that they have been translated into.