Largely due to technological advances, methods for analyzing readability have increased
significantly in recent years. While past researchers designed hundreds of formulas to …

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 …

This paper addresses the task of readability assessment for the texts aimed at second
language (L2) learners. One of the major challenges in this task is the lack of significantly …

We investigate the problem of readability assessment using a range of lexical and syntactic
features and study their impact on predicting the grade level of texts. As empirical basis, we …

Several sets of explanatory variables–including shallow, language modeling, POS,
syntactic, and discourse features–are compared and evaluated in terms of their impact on …

This paper describes the collection and compilation of the OneStopEnglish corpus of texts
written at three reading levels, and demonstrates its usefulness for through two applications …

In this paper, we propose a new approach to readability assessment with a specific view to
the task of text simplification: the intended audience includes people with low literacy skills …

The Web has become a popular and important medium of transmitting information from one
place to another place. For making information accessible to all, we need to check their …

This paper present a new readability formula for French as a foreign language (FFL), which
relies on 46 textual features representative of the lexical, syntactic, and semantic levels as …

The goal in this paper is to automatically transform text into a simpler text, so that it is easier
to understand by children. We perform syntactic simplification, ie the splitting of sentences …