Readability and Related Tasks

 

Newsletter #12

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• A Thorough Examination of the CNN / Daily Mail Reading Comprehension Task

Danqi Chen, Jason Bolton, and Christopher D. Manning



• Evaluating the Readability of Text Simplification Output for Readers with Cognitive Disabilities

Victoria Yaneva, Irina Temnikova, and Ruslan Mitkov

• MADAD: A Readability Annotation Tool for Arabic Text

Nora Al-Twairesh, Abeer Al-Dayel, Hend Al-Khalifa, Maha Al-Yahya, Sinaa Alageel, Nora Abanmy, and Nouf Al-Shenaifi

• OSMAN ― A Novel Arabic Readability Metric

Mahmoud El-Haj and Paul Rayson

• Predicting Reading Difficulty for Readers with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Victoria Yaneva, Richard Evans, and Irina Temnikova

• Readability-based Sentence Ranking for Evaluating Text Simplification

Sowmya Vajjala and Detmar Meurers

• SimplexEduReading: Simplification of Natural Language for Reading Comprehension Improvement in Education

Estela Saquete, Ruben Izquierdo Bevia, and Sonia Vazquez

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Newsletter #11

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• A Sequential Latent Topic-based Readability Model for Domain-Specic Information Retrieval

Wenya Zhang, Dawei Song, Peng Zhang, Xiaozhao Zhao, and Yuexian Hou

• A Study of Readability Prediction on Elementary and Secondary Chinese Textbooks and Excellent Extracurricular Reading Materials

Yi-­Nian Liu, Kuan­-Yu Chen, Ho-Chiang Tseng, and Berlin Chen

• Reading Times Predict the Quality of Generated Text Above and Beyond Human Ratings

Sina Zarrieß, Sebastian Loth, and David Schlangen

• When readability meets computational linguistics: a new paradigm in readability

Thomas François

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Newsletter #9

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• A Graph-based Readability Assessment Method using Word Coupling

Zhiwei Jiang, Gang Sun, Qing Gu, and Daoxu Chen

• A new approach to automated text readability classification based on concept indexing with integrated part-of-speech n-gram features

Abigail Razon and John Barnden

• A System for Generating Multiple Choice Questions: With a Novel Approach for Sentence Selection

Mukta Majumder and Sujan Kumar Saha

• Distractor quality evaluation in Multiple Choice Questions

Van-Minh Pho, Anne-Laure Ligozat, and Brigitte Grau

• Evaluating Human and Automated Generation of Distractors for Diagnostic Multiple-Choice Cloze Questions to Assess Children’s Reading Comprehension

Yi-Ting Huang and Jack Mostow

• Leveling L2 Texts Through Readability: Combining Multilevel Linguistic Features with the CEFR

Yao-Ting Sung, Wei-Chun lin, Scott Benjamin Dyson, Kuo-En Chang, and Yu-Chia Chen

• Readability Assessment of Translated Texts

Alina Maria Ciobanu, Liviu P. Dinu, and Flaviu Pepelea

• Reading Metrics for Estimating Task Efficiency with SMT Output

Sigrid Klerke, Sheila Castilho, and Anders Søgaard

• Using Reading Behavior to Predict Grammatical Functions

Maria Barrett

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Newsletter #8

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• A Readable Read: Automatic Assessment of Language Learning Materials based on Linguistic Complexity

Ildikó Pilán, Sowmya Vajjala, and Elena Volodina

• Analyzing and Comparing Reading Stimulus Materials Across the TOEFL® Family of Assessments

Jing Chen and Kathleen M. Sheehan

• Designing a Reading Material Recommendation System for EFL Learners

Chin-Hwa Kuo and Chen-Chung Chi

• What do our children read about? Affect analysis of school texts in Chile

Claudia Martinez, Alejandra Segura, Chistian Vidal-Castro, Jorge Fernandez, and Clemente Rubio

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Newsletter #7

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• A readability level prediction tool for K-12 books

Joel Denning, Maria Soledad Pera and Yiu-Kai Ng

• Simple or Not Simple? A Readability Question

Sanja Štajner, Ruslan Mitkov, and Gloria Corpas Pastor

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Newsletter #6

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• Focus Annotation in Reading Comprehension Data

Ramon Ziai and Detmar Meurers

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