On understanding the relation between expert annotations of text readability and target reader comprehension

S Vajjala, I Lučić - Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on …, 2019 - aclanthology.org
Automatic readability assessment aims to ensure that readers read texts that they can
comprehend. However, computational models are typically trained on texts created from the …

Towards grounding computational linguistic approaches to readability: Modeling reader-text interaction for easy and difficult texts

S Vajjala, D Meurers, A Eitel… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - aclanthology.org
Computational approaches to readability assessment are generally built and evaluated
using gold standard corpora labeled by publishers or teachers rather than being grounded …

Approaches, methods, and resources for assessing the readability of arabic texts

N Nassiri, V Cavalli-Sforza, A Lakhouaja - ACM Transactions on Asian …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Text readability assessment is a well-known problem that has acquired even more
importance in today's information-rich world. In this article, we survey various approaches to …

Hybrid models for sentence readability assessment

F Liu, JSY Lee - Proceedings of the 18th Workshop on Innovative …, 2023 - aclanthology.org
Automatic readability assessment (ARA) predicts how difficult it is for the reader to
understand a text. While ARA has traditionally been performed at the passage level, there …

Computational assessment of text readability: A survey of current and future research

K Collins-Thompson - ITL-International Journal of Applied …, 2014 - jbe-platform.com
Assessing text readability is a time-honored problem that has even more relevance in
today's information-rich world. This article provides background on how readability of texts is …

[引用][C] Computational assessment of text readability

CT Kevyn - ITL-International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2014 - ingentaconnect.com
Assessing text readability is a time-honored problem that has even more relevance in
today's information-rich world. This article provides background on how readability of texts is …

Advances in readability research: A new readability Web app for English

JS Choi, SA Crossley - 2022 International Conference on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Readability research and the entailing derivation of theoretically valid and high-performing
readability assessment models are important components of reading education. There have …

Trends, limitations and open challenges in automatic readability assessment research

S Vajjala - arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.00973, 2021 - arxiv.org
Readability assessment is the task of evaluating the reading difficulty of a given piece of text.
Although research on computational approaches to readability assessment is now two …

[PDF][PDF] Offline sentence processing measures for testing readability with users

A Siddharthan, N Katsos - Proceedings of the First Workshop on …, 2012 - aclanthology.org
While there has been much work on computational models to predict readability based on
the lexical, syntactic and discourse properties of a text, there are also interesting open …

[PDF][PDF] Readability annotation: Replacing the expert by the crowd

P Van Oosten, V Hoste - Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on …, 2011 - aclanthology.org
This paper investigates two strategies for collecting readability assessments, an Expert
Readers application intended to collect fine-grained readability assessments from language …