A Language Modeling Approach to Predicting Reading Difficulty

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We demonstrate a new research approach to the problem of predicting the reading difficulty of a text passage, by recasting readability in terms of statistical language modeling. We derive a measure based on an extension of multinomial na

Kevyn Collins-Thompson, James P. Callan

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Year	2004
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Authors	Kevyn Collins-Thompson, James P. Callan

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