TFM Project

This repository contains the code and data used for the TFM project focused on lexical simplification, dictionary generation, definition extraction, evaluation, and model benchmarking.

Project overview

The project combines several components:

• application/ — web application, backend API, and frontend interface.
• detection_module/ — detection and preprocessing logic.
• generation_module/ — definition generation and model usage workflows.
• dictionary_programs/ — dictionary extraction, normalization, and analysis utilities.
• metrics_module/ — evaluation, readability, and metric computation.
• data/ — benchmark datasets, extracted definitions, and dictionaries.
• tests/ — validation and regression tests.

Main goals

• Generate and refine definitions for Spanish terms.
• Evaluate model quality using linguistic and readability metrics.
• Support experiments with multiple models and datasets.
• Provide a usable application layer for testing and demonstration.

Requirements

The project depends on Python packages listed in requirements.txt.

Recommended setup:

cd TFM
python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Useful folders

• application/backend/ — backend services and API entry points.
• application/frontend/ — Angular frontend.
• detection_module/ — detection of botrrowings in a given text.
• generation_module/ — generation of definitions using different models.
• metrics_module/ — metric computation and experimental analysis.
• dictionary_programs/ — programs used to generate all the data.
• data/dictionaries/ — all the versions of the dictionaries generated.
• data/test_datasets/ — all the versions of the test datasets generated.

Generating Definitions

The generation_module/use_models.py script generates simplified definitions for terms using multiple language models.

Available Models:

• llama — meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct (Multilingual)
• ministral — mistralai/Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-2512 (Multilingual)
• latxa — HiTZ/Latxa-Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct (Spanish/Catalan/Basque specialized)
• rigochat — IIC/RigoChat-7b-v2 (Spanish language model)

Usage:

cd generation_module
python use_models.py

The script:

1. Loads a glossary dataset from ../data/dictionaries/transformed_terms.json
2. Applies prompt templates to generate simplified definitions
3. Runs inference with the configured models
4. Saves results in JSON format with structure: {field: {id_term, term, original, adapted, context, simplified}}
5. Outputs are organized in version folders (e.g., experiments/results_v1/, experiments/results_v2/, etc.)

Configuration:

• Modify the prompt_templates list in the main() function to customize the prompt.
• Change input_file to point to your dataset.
• Specify which models to use via the model loading configuration.
• Results are saved with model name as filename (e.g., llama.json, ministral.json).

Output Structure: Each model generates a JSON file containing:

{
  "field_name": {
    "id_term": "...",
    "term": "...",
    "original": "...",
    "adapted": "...",
    "context": "...",
    "simplified": "Generated definition here"
  }
}

Computing Metrics

The metrics_module/hulat_metrics.py script evaluates the quality of generated definitions using multiple linguistic and readability metrics.

Supported Metrics:

• BERTScore — semantic similarity between texts
• ReadabilityScores — Fernández Huerta (ES) and Flesch Reading Ease (EN)
• SARI — measures level of simplification
• ROUGE — overlap-based similarity metrics
• Sentence Transformers — semantic similarity using transformers
• MoverScore — cross-lingual semantic evaluation
• AlignScore — Natural Language Inference-based alignment scoring
• SummaC — factuality evaluation
• Hallucination Detection — identifies generated content not in source

Usage:

cd metrics_module
python hulat_metrics.py --lang es --input_folder /path/to/models/results --out /path/to/output

Parameters:

• --lang — Language for evaluation: es (Spanish) or en (English) [required]
• --input_folder — Path to folder containing model JSON files, where filename = model name [required]
• --out — Path to output folder for results (JSON, CSV, and CodeCarbon emissions reports) [required]

Input Format: The script expects JSON files in input_folder with the following structure:

{
  "field_name": {
    "original": "original text",
    "simplified": "simplified definition",
    "reference": "reference definition"
  }
}

Outputs:

• metrics_{model}.json — Full metric results per model
• metrics_{model}.csv — Metric results in tabular format
• emissions_metricas_{model}.csv — Carbon emissions tracking

Example:

python hulat_metrics.py --lang es --input_folder ../generation_module/experiments/results_v1 --out ./experiments/results_v1

This will:

1. Read all JSON files from experiments/results_v1/ (e.g., llama.json, ministral.json, etc.)
2. Compute metrics for each model
3. Generate comparison reports in experiments/results_v1/

alternatively, one can use the execute_metrics.sh script to automatically compute all the metrics, using:

./execute_metrics.sh

Using the Application

The EASIER application provides a web-based interface for lexical simplification and borrowing detection in Spanish texts. It consists of a backend API and an Angular frontend.

Backend Setup

Prerequisites:

• Python 3.8+
• CUDA-enabled GPU (recommended for faster inference)
• Hugging Face API token (for model access)

Installation:

cd application/backend
python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate  # On Windows: venv\Scripts\activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Configuration: Create a .env file in application/backend/:

HUGGINGFACE_TOKEN=your_hf_token_here

Running the Backend:

cd application/backend
./restart_container.sh

The API server will start on http://localhost:5000.

Frontend Setup

Prerequisites:

• Node.js 12+ and npm

Installation:

cd application/frontend
npm install

Complete Workflow

1. Start the backend:

   cd application/backend
   ./restart_container.sh
   

2. Start the frontend:

   cd application/frontend
   ng serve
   

3. Access the application:

   • Open http://localhost:4200 in your browser
   • Enter Spanish text to analyze
   • The system will identify borrowings and complex words
   • Request definitions and simplifications through the API

Notes

• Some scripts rely on local datasets stored under data/.
• Environment variables may be required by the application and model integrations, such as a Hugging Face API key.
• The project is intended for research, experimentation, and prototype development.
• GPU support requires CUDA-compatible PyTorch installation.

Project Context

This Bachelor's Thesis was developed within the framework of the research project: PID2023-148577OB-C21 Human-Centered AI: User-Driven Adapted Language Models (HUMAN_AI) Funded by: MICIU- AEI (10.13039/501100011033) - FEDER/European Union