即使在高度发达的国家，多达15-30％的人口只能理解使用基本词汇编写的文本。他们对日常文本的理解是有限的，这阻止了他们在社会中发挥积极作用，并就医疗保健，法律代表或民主选择做出明智的决定。词汇简化是一项自然语言处理任务，旨在通过更简单地替换复杂的词汇和表达方式来使每个人都可以理解文本，同时保留原始含义。在过去的20年中，它引起了极大的关注，并且已经针对各种语言提出了全自动词汇简化系统。该领域进步的主要障碍是缺乏用于构建和评估词汇简化系统的高质量数据集。我们提出了一个新的基准数据集，用于英语，西班牙语和（巴西）葡萄牙语中的词汇简化，并提供有关数据选择和注释程序的详细信息。这是第一个可直接比较三种语言的词汇简化系统的数据集。为了展示数据集的可用性，我们将两种具有不同体系结构（神经与非神经）的最先进的词汇简化系统适应所有三种语言（英语，西班牙语和巴西葡萄牙语），并评估他们的表演在我们的新数据集中。为了进行更公平的比较，我们使用多种评估措施来捕获系统功效的各个方面，并讨论其优势和缺点。我们发现，最先进的神经词汇简化系统优于所有三种语言中最先进的非神经词汇简化系统。更重要的是，我们发现最先进的神经词汇简化系统对英语的表现要比西班牙和葡萄牙语要好得多。

This report summarizes the work carried out by the authors during the Twelfth Montreal Industrial Problem Solving Workshop, held at Universit\'e de Montr\'eal in August 2022. The team tackled a problem submitted by CBC/Radio-Canada on the theme of Automatic Text Simplification (ATS).

词汇简化（LS）是自动替换复杂词的任务，使其更容易使文本更容易被各种目标人群访问（例如，识字率低，学习障碍的人，第二语言学习者）。为了训练和测试模型，LS系统通常需要在上下文中具有复杂词的CORPORA及其候选替代。为了继续提高LS系统的性能，我们引入了Alexsis-PT，这是一个新型的巴西葡萄牙LS的多候选数据集，其中包含9,605个候选替代，用于387个复杂词。 Alexsis-PT已按照Alexsis协议进行编译，用于西班牙开放跨语言模型的令人兴奋的新途径。 Alexsis-PT是第一个包含巴西报纸文章的LS多候车数据集。我们评估了该数据集上替代生成的四个模型，即Mdistilbert，Mbert，XLM-R和Bertimbau。 Bertimbau在所有评估指标中取得了最高的性能。

Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) is the task of automatically detecting and correcting errors in text. The task not only includes the correction of grammatical errors, such as missing prepositions and mismatched subject-verb agreement, but also orthographic and semantic errors, such as misspellings and word choice errors respectively. The field has seen significant progress in the last decade, motivated in part by a series of five shared tasks, which drove the development of rule-based methods, statistical classifiers, statistical machine translation, and finally neural machine translation systems which represent the current dominant state of the art. In this survey paper, we condense the field into a single article and first outline some of the linguistic challenges of the task, introduce the most popular datasets that are available to researchers (for both English and other languages), and summarise the various methods and techniques that have been developed with a particular focus on artificial error generation. We next describe the many different approaches to evaluation as well as concerns surrounding metric reliability, especially in relation to subjective human judgements, before concluding with an overview of recent progress and suggestions for future work and remaining challenges. We hope that this survey will serve as comprehensive resource for researchers who are new to the field or who want to be kept apprised of recent developments.

临床票据是记录患者信息的有效方法，但难以破译非专家的难以破译。自动简化医学文本可以使患者提供有关其健康的有价值的信息，同时节省临床医生。我们提出了一种基于词频率和语言建模的医学文本自动简化的新方法，基于富裕的外行术语的医疗本体。我们发布了一对公开可用的医疗句子的新数据集，并由临床医生简化了它们的版本。此外，我们定义了一种新颖的文本简化公制和评估框架，我们用于对我们对现有技术的方法进行大规模人类评估。我们基于在医学论坛数据上培训的语言模型的方法在保留语法和原始含义时产生更简单的句子，超越现有技术。

数据增强是自然语言处理（NLP）模型的鲁棒性评估的重要组成部分，以及增强他们培训的数据的多样性。在本文中，我们呈现NL-Cogmenter，这是一种新的参与式Python的自然语言增强框架，它支持创建两个转换（对数据的修改）和过滤器（根据特定功能的数据拆分）。我们描述了框架和初始的117个变换和23个过滤器，用于各种自然语言任务。我们通过使用其几个转换来分析流行自然语言模型的鲁棒性来证明NL-Upmenter的功效。基础架构，Datacards和稳健性分析结果在NL-Augmenter存储库上公开可用（\ url {https://github.com/gem-benchmark/nl-augmenter}）。

In this work, we introduce IndicXTREME, a benchmark consisting of nine diverse tasks covering 18 languages from the Indic sub-continent belonging to four different families. Across languages and tasks, IndicXTREME contains a total of 103 evaluation sets, of which 51 are new contributions to the literature. To maintain high quality, we only use human annotators to curate or translate\footnote{for IndicXParaphrase, where an automatic translation system is used, a second human verification and correction step is done.} our datasets. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first effort toward creating a standard benchmark for Indic languages that aims to test the zero-shot capabilities of pretrained language models. We also release IndicCorp v2, an updated and much larger version of IndicCorp that contains 20.9 billion tokens in 24 languages. We pretrain IndicBERT v2 on IndicCorp v2 and evaluate it on IndicXTREME to show that it outperforms existing multilingual language models such as XLM-R and MuRIL.

法律文本的处理一直是自然语言处理（NLP）的新兴领域的发展。法律文本包含词汇，语义，语法和形态中的独特术语和复杂的语言属性。因此，对于法律领域特定的文本简化（TS）方法的开发对于促进普通人理解法律文本并为主流法律NLP应用程序的高级模型提供投入至关重要。尽管最近的一项研究提出了一种基于规则的TS法律文本方法，但以前尚未考虑法律领域中的基于学习的TS。在这里，我们介绍了一种无监督的法律文本简化方法（USLT）。 USLT通过替换复杂的单词和分裂长句子来执行特定于域的TS。为此，USLT检测句子中的复杂单词，通过掩盖转换器模型生成候选者，并根据等级分数选择替代的候选者。之后，USLT递归将长句子分解为较短的核心和上下文句子的层次结构，同时保留语义含义。我们证明，USLT在文本简单性中优于最先进的域总TS方法，同时保持语义完整。

As machine translation (MT) metrics improve their correlation with human judgement every year, it is crucial to understand the limitations of such metrics at the segment level. Specifically, it is important to investigate metric behaviour when facing accuracy errors in MT because these can have dangerous consequences in certain contexts (e.g., legal, medical). We curate ACES, a translation accuracy challenge set, consisting of 68 phenomena ranging from simple perturbations at the word/character level to more complex errors based on discourse and real-world knowledge. We use ACES to evaluate a wide range of MT metrics including the submissions to the WMT 2022 metrics shared task and perform several analyses leading to general recommendations for metric developers. We recommend: a) combining metrics with different strengths, b) developing metrics that give more weight to the source and less to surface-level overlap with the reference and c) explicitly modelling additional language-specific information beyond what is available via multilingual embeddings.

本文介绍了对土耳其语可用于的语料库和词汇资源的全面调查。我们审查了广泛的资源，重点关注公开可用的资源。除了提供有关可用语言资源的信息外，我们还提供了一组建议，并确定可用于在土耳其语言学和自然语言处理中进行研究和建筑应用的数据中的差距。

与简单英语的德国同行“莱希特·斯普拉奇（Leichte Sprache）”是一种旨在促进复杂的书面语言的受监管语言，否则不同的人群将无法访问。我们为简单德语 - 德语提供了一个新的与句子一致的单语语料库。它包含多个使用自动句子对准方法对齐的文档对准源。我们根据手动标记的对齐文档子集评估我们的对齐方式。通过F1得分衡量的句子对齐质量超过了先前的工作。我们根据CC BY-SA和MIT许可证的随附代码发布数据集。

GPT-3等大型自回归语言模型是几秒钟的学习者，可以在没有微调的情况下执行各种语言任务。虽然已知这些模型能够共同代表许多不同的语言，但他们的培训数据由英语主导，可能限制了它们的交叉概括。在这项工作中，我们在覆盖多种语言的平衡语料库上培训多语言自回归语言模型，并在广泛的任务中研究他们几乎没有零点的学习能力。我们最大的模型，具有75亿参数，在20多种代表语言中，在几种代表语言中，在几种代表性语言中，在几种代表性语言中，在多语言型号推理中表现出可比大小的GPT-3（在0次设置和0次拍摄设置中的绝对精度改善+ 7.4％ 4-拍摄设置中的9.4％）和自然语言推理（每次拍摄和4次设置中的每一个+ 5.4％）。在Flores-101机器翻译基准测试中，我们的模型优于GPT-3在182个翻译方向上有32个培训例子，同时超过45个方向的官方监督基线。我们介绍了模型成功和失败的位置的详细分析，特别是它尤其显示在某些任务中实现交叉语境的内容学习，而仍然存在改善表面的鲁棒性和适应没有a的任务的余地自然冻结形式。最后，我们评估我们在仇恨语音检测中以五种语言的仇恨语音检测的模型，并发现它具有与可比大小的GPT-3模型类似的限制。

In this paper we present our contribution to the TSAR-2022 Shared Task on Lexical Simplification of the EMNLP 2022 Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility, and Readability. Our approach builds on and extends the unsupervised lexical simplification system with pretrained encoders (LSBert) system in the following ways: For the subtask of simplification candidate selection, it utilizes a RoBERTa transformer language model and expands the size of the generated candidate list. For subsequent substitution ranking, it introduces a new feature weighting scheme and adopts a candidate filtering method based on textual entailment to maximize semantic similarity between the target word and its simplification. Our best-performing system improves LSBert by 5.9% accuracy and achieves second place out of 33 ranked solutions.

这项研究讨论了半监督学习的影响与验证的语言模型，以生成数据到文本。当还补充大规模语言模型时，尚不清楚半监督学习是否仍然有用。这项研究的目的是通过将仅补充语言模型的数据到文本系统与两个数据到文本系统进行比较，这些系统通过数据增强或伪标记的半固定学习方法而富含数据。结果表明，半监督学习会导致多样性指标的得分更高。在输出质量方面，使用伪标记方法扩展数据到文本系统的训练集确实提高了文本质量分数，但是数据增强方法在没有训练设置扩展的情况下得出了与系统相似的分数。这些结果表明，即使也存在语言模型，半监督的学习方法也可以增强产出质量和多样性。

Natural Language Understanding has seen an increasing number of publications in the last few years, especially after robust word embeddings models became prominent, when they proved themselves able to capture and represent semantic relationships from massive amounts of data. Nevertheless, traditional models often fall short in intrinsic issues of linguistics, such as polysemy and homonymy. Any expert system that makes use of natural language in its core, can be affected by a weak semantic representation of text, resulting in inaccurate outcomes based on poor decisions. To mitigate such issues, we propose a novel approach called Most Suitable Sense Annotation (MSSA), that disambiguates and annotates each word by its specific sense, considering the semantic effects of its context. Our approach brings three main contributions to the semantic representation scenario: (i) an unsupervised technique that disambiguates and annotates words by their senses, (ii) a multi-sense embeddings model that can be extended to any traditional word embeddings algorithm, and (iii) a recurrent methodology that allows our models to be re-used and their representations refined. We test our approach on six different benchmarks for the word similarity task, showing that our approach can produce state-of-the-art results and outperforms several more complex state-of-the-art systems.

While the NLP community is generally aware of resource disparities among languages, we lack research that quantifies the extent and types of such disparity. Prior surveys estimating the availability of resources based on the number of datasets can be misleading as dataset quality varies: many datasets are automatically induced or translated from English data. To provide a more comprehensive picture of language resources, we examine the characteristics of 156 publicly available NLP datasets. We manually annotate how they are created, including input text and label sources and tools used to build them, and what they study, tasks they address and motivations for their creation. After quantifying the qualitative NLP resource gap across languages, we discuss how to improve data collection in low-resource languages. We survey language-proficient NLP researchers and crowd workers per language, finding that their estimated availability correlates with dataset availability. Through crowdsourcing experiments, we identify strategies for collecting high-quality multilingual data on the Mechanical Turk platform. We conclude by making macro and micro-level suggestions to the NLP community and individual researchers for future multilingual data development.

识别跨语言抄袭是挑战性的，特别是对于遥远的语言对和感知翻译。我们介绍了这项任务的新型多语言检索模型跨语言本体论（CL \ nobreakdash-osa）。 CL-OSA表示从开放知识图Wikidata获得的实体向量的文档。反对其他方法，Cl \ nobreakdash-osa不需要计算昂贵的机器翻译，也不需要使用可比较或平行语料库进行预培训。它可靠地歧义同音异义和缩放，以允许其应用于Web级文档集合。我们展示了CL-OSA优于从五个大局部多样化的测试语料中检索候选文档的最先进的方法，包括日语英语等遥控语言对。为了识别在角色级别的跨语言抄袭，CL-OSA主要改善了感觉识别翻译的检测。对于这些挑战性案例，CL-OSA在良好的Plagdet得分方面的表现超过了最佳竞争对手的比例超过两种。我们研究的代码和数据公开可用。

对于自然语言处理应用可能是有问题的，因为它们的含义不能从其构成词语推断出来。缺乏成功的方法方法和足够大的数据集防止了用于检测成语的机器学习方法的开发，特别是对于在训练集中不发生的表达式。我们提出了一种叫做小鼠的方法，它使用上下文嵌入来实现此目的。我们展示了一个新的多字表达式数据集，具有文字和惯用含义，并使用它根据两个最先进的上下文单词嵌入式培训分类器：Elmo和Bert。我们表明，使用两个嵌入式的深度神经网络比现有方法更好地执行，并且能够检测惯用词使用，即使对于训练集中不存在的表达式。我们展示了开发模型的交叉传输，并分析了所需数据集的大小。

在本文中，我们分享了我们努力建立能够翻译一千多种语言的实用机器翻译（MT）系统的发现。我们在三个研究领域中描述了结果：（i）通过利用半监督预训练的语言识别和开发数据驱动的过滤技术来构建1500多种语言的清洁，网挖数据集； （ii）通过利用大规模的多语言模型来开发用于服务不足的语言的实用MT模型，该模型训练了有监督的并行数据，以使用100多种高资源语言和单语言数据集，以增加1000多种语言； （iii）研究这些语言的评估指标的局限性，并对我们MT模型的输出进行定性分析，突出显示了这些类型模型的几种频繁误差模式。我们希望我们的工作为旨在为当前研究的语言构建MT系统的从业者提供有用的见解，并突出显示可以补充Data-Sparse设置中大量多语言模型的弱点的研究方向。

State-of-the-art text simplification (TS) systems adopt end-to-end neural network models to directly generate the simplified version of the input text, and usually function as a blackbox. Moreover, TS is usually treated as an all-purpose generic task under the assumption of homogeneity, where the same simplification is suitable for all. In recent years, however, there has been increasing recognition of the need to adapt the simplification techniques to the specific needs of different target groups. In this work, we aim to advance current research on explainable and controllable TS in two ways: First, building on recently proposed work to increase the transparency of TS systems, we use a large set of (psycho-)linguistic features in combination with pre-trained language models to improve explainable complexity prediction. Second, based on the results of this preliminary task, we extend a state-of-the-art Seq2Seq TS model, ACCESS, to enable explicit control of ten attributes. The results of experiments show (1) that our approach improves the performance of state-of-the-art models for predicting explainable complexity and (2) that explicitly conditioning the Seq2Seq model on ten attributes leads to a significant improvement in performance in both within-domain and out-of-domain settings.