In this paper we describe the English Lexical Substitution task for SemEval. In the task, annotators and systems find an alternative substitute word or phrase for a target word in context. The task involves both finding the synonyms and disambiguating the context. Participating systems are free to use any lexical resource. There is a subtask which requires identifying cases where the word is functioning as part of a multiword in the sentence and detecting what that multiword is.
At the lexical level, a recent evaluation on English lexical substitution was held REF in which systems had to find lexical synonyms and disambiguate the context.
SemEval-2007 Task 10: English Lexical Substitution Task
Fourth International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations (SemEval-2007)
Computer Science