Hi Christopher, It is of the best interest of the community to discontinue the usage of "word". The term is not only very shaky in its foundation (if any), but it can also effect disparity in performance in computational processing and robustness when human evaluation is involved. Despite the term has been casually adopted by many in the past, like many un-PC terms that may have an inappropriate undertone, it needs to be discouraged and abandoned. Last but not least, I noticed that you are located in Canada, in the event that you were to work with any indigenous communities, one MUST be advised to be careful with the usage of such term --- you could be imposing your own (EN- / FR- / dominant language-centric) view onto another individual/community. There is an element of cultural and linguistic hegemony with the usage of such term (including and not limited to making applications with it). Please also consult recent work in this area: https://openreview.net/forum?id=-llS6TiOew.
Feel free to get in touch if you should have any questions. Best, Ada On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 4:53 PM Christopher Collins < christopher.coll...@ontariotechu.ca> wrote: > Hello, > > > > I’m looking for any open source or cloud-hosted solution for complex word > identification or word difficulty rating in French for a reading > application. > > > > As a backup plan we can use measures like corpus frequency, length, number > of senses, but we’re hoping someone has already made a tool available. > > > > We found this but that’s it: https://github.com/sheffieldnlp/cwi > > > > Would appreciate any tips! > > > > Thanks, > > > > Chris > > > > *Christopher Collins *[he/him > <https://medium.com/gender-inclusivit/why-i-put-pronouns-on-my-email-signature-and-linkedin-profile-and-you-should-too-d3dc942c8743> > ] > Associate Professor - Faculty of Science > Canada Research Chair in Linguistic Information Visualization > Ontario Tech University > vialab.ca > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE from this page: http://mailman.uib.no/options/corpora > Corpora mailing list -- corpora@list.elra.info > To unsubscribe send an email to corpora-le...@list.elra.info >
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