We consider the problem of learning to simplify medical texts. This is important because
most reliable, up-to-date information in biomedicine is dense with jargon and thus practically …

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 …

This paper introduces the CommonLit Ease of Readability (CLEAR) corpus, which provides
unique readability scores for~ 5000 text excerpts along with information about the excerpt's …

This paper addresses the task of readability assessment for the texts aimed at second
language (L2) learners. One of the major challenges in this task is the lack of significantly …

We investigate the problem of readability assessment using a range of lexical and syntactic
features and study their impact on predicting the grade level of texts. As empirical basis, we …

Background Advances in natural language processing (NLP) and computational linguistics
have facilitated major improvements on traditional readability formulas that aim at predicting …

In this paper, we propose a new approach to readability assessment with a specific view to
the task of text simplification: the intended audience includes people with low literacy skills …

Workers of microtask crowdsourcing marketplaces strive to find a balance between the need
for monetary income and the need for high reputation. Such balance is often threatened by …

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 …

Predicting the success of literary works is a curious question among publishers and aspiring
writers alike. We examine the quantitative connection, if any, between writing style and …