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ICTA
2009
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Feasibility Analysis for SemiAutomatic Conversion of Text to Improve Readability
1 WCAG 2.0 (W3C Recommendation 11 Dec. 2008) recommendation includes a specific guideline regarding the readability of text contents. This paper presents an approach to adapt text ...
Susana Bautista, Pablo Gervás, R. Ignacio M...
NAACL
2007
14 years 11 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...
ASSETS
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Comparing evaluation techniques for text readability software for adults with intellectual disabilities
In this paper, we compare alternative techniques for evaluating a software system for simplifying the readability of texts for adults with mild intellectual disabilities (ID). We ...
Matt Huenerfauth, Lijun Feng, Noemie Elhadad
CHI
2008
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Readability of scanned books in digital libraries
Displaying scanned book pages in a web browser is difficult, due to an array of characteristics of the common user's configuration that compound to yield text that is degrade...
Alexander J. Quinn, Chang Hu, Takeshi Arisaka, Ann...
LREC
2010
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14 years 11 months ago
Towards an Improved Methodology for Automated Readability Prediction
Since the first half of the 20th century, readability formulas have been widely employed to automatically predict the readability of an unseen text. In this article, the formulas ...
Philip van Oosten, Dries Tanghe, Véronique ...