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NAACL
2004
13 years 5 months ago
A Language Modeling Approach to Predicting Reading Difficulty
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. W...
Kevyn Collins-Thompson, James P. Callan
NAACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Combining Lexical and Grammatical Features to Improve Readability Measures for First and Second Language Texts
This work evaluates a system that uses interpolated predictions of reading difficulty that are based on both vocabulary and grammatical features. The combined approach is compared...
Michael Heilman, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Jamie Cal...
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Syntactic and Semantic Factors in Processing Difficulty: An Integrated Measure
The analysis of reading times can provide insights into the processes that underlie language comprehension, with longer reading times indicating greater cognitive load. There is e...
Jeff Mitchell, Mirella Lapata, Vera Demberg, Frank...
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Surprising Parser Actions and Reading Difficulty
An incremental dependency parser's probability model is entered as a predictor in a linear mixed-effects model of German readers' eye-fixation durations. This dependency...
Marisa Ferrara Boston, John T. Hale, Reinhold Klie...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Statistical Estimation of Word Acquisition with Application to Readability Prediction
Models of language learning play a central role in a wide range of applications: from psycholinguistic theories of how people acquire new word knowledge, to information systems th...
Paul Kidwell, Guy Lebanon, Kevyn Collins-Thompson