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EMNLP
2009
14 years 7 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
COLING
1994
14 years 11 months ago
Machine-Readable Dictionaries in Text-to-Speech Systems
This paper presents the results of an experiment usiug machine-readable dictionaries (Mill)s) and corpora for building concatenativc units for text to speech (T'PS) systems. ...
Judith Klavans, Evelyne Tzoukermann
COLING
1990
14 years 11 months ago
Word Sense Disambiguation with Very Large Neural Networks Extracted from Machine Readable Dictionaries
In this paper, we describe a means for automatically building very large neural networks (VLNNs) from definition texts in machine-readable dictionaries, and demonstrate the use of...
Jean Véronis, Nancy Ide
ECTEL
2007
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Writing to be read - Readability Indices for Open Educational Resources
Much of the text of pen resources such as Wikipedia is written at a college level of readability, thus posing an access barrier to the general public. Reading levels are important ...
Griff Richards
ELPUB
2003
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Practical Approach to Automatic Text Summarization
s and that of abstracts generated automatically. Despite highly promising results achieved by luation, readability of abstracts must be further improved by integrating additional h...
Jiri Hynek, Karel Jezek