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EMNLP
2009
14 years 9 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
15 years 1 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
15 years 1 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 6 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 5 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