A Dictionary-Based Study of Word Sense Difficulty
(2022) 2nd Workshop on Tools and Resources for People with REAding DIfficulties (READI) — Location: Marseille, France (24.June.2022)
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Cardon, Rémi 
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- In this article, we present an exploratory study on perceived word sense ifficulty by native and non-native speakers of French. We use a graded lexicon in conjunction with the French Wiktionary to generate tasks in bundles of four items. Annotators manually rate the difficulty of the word senses based on their usage in a sentence by selecting the easiest and the most difficult word sense out of four. Our results show that the native and non-native speakers largely agree when it comes to the difficulty of words. Further, the rankings derived from the manual annotation broadly follow the levels of the words in the graded resource, although these levels were not overtly available to annotators. Using clustering, we investigate whether there is a link between the complexity of a definition and the difficulty of the associated word sense. However, results were inconclusive. The annotated data set will be made available for research purposes.
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Alfter, D., Cardon, R., & François, T. (2022). A Dictionary-Based Study of Word Sense Difficulty. In Rodrigo Wilkens, David Alfter, Rémi Cardon, Núria Gala (ed.), Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Tools and Resources for People with REAding DIfficulties (READI). ELRA. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/229832