期刊名称:Conference on European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)
出版年度:2009
卷号:2009
出版社:ACL Anthology
摘要:We investigate linguistic features that correlate
with the readability of texts for adults with intellectual
disabilities (ID). Based on a corpus
of texts (including some experimentally measured
for comprehension by adults with ID), we
analyze the significance of novel discourselevel
features related to the cognitive factors
underlying our users’ literacy challenges. We
develop and evaluate a tool for automatically
rating the readability of texts for these users.
Our experiments show that our discourselevel,
cognitively-motivated features improve
automatic readability assessment.