Computational assessment of text readability: a survey of current and future research

• Autores: Kevyn Collins-Thompson
• Localización: ITL International Journal of Applied Linguistics, ISSN 0019-0810, ISSN-e 1783-1490, Vol. 165, Nº. 2, 2013-2014 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Recent advances in automatic readability assessment and text simplification), págs. 97-135
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Assessing text readability is a time-honored problem that has even more relevance in today's information-rich world. This article provides background on how readability of texts is assessed automatically, reviews the current state-of-the-art algorithms in automatic modeling and predicting the reading difficulty of texts, and proposes new challenges and opportunities for future exploration not well-covered by current computational research.