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 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 …

Controllable text simplification is a crucial assistive technique for language learning and
teaching. One of the primary factors hindering its advancement is the lack of a corpus …

In this paper, we present the FABRA: readability toolkit based on the aggregation of a large
number of readability predictor variables. The toolkit is implemented as a service-oriented …

Readability research has a long and rich tradition, but there has been too little focus on
general readability prediction without targeting a specific audience or text genre. Moreover …

While human annotation is crucial for many natural language processing tasks, it is often
very expensive and time-consuming. Inspired by previous work on crowdsourcing, we …

Extracurricular reading is important for language learning since it is not just beneficial for
vocabulary and grammar acquisition, but also useful for other aspects such as reading …

Analyzing the readability of articles has been an important sociolinguistic task. Addressing
this task is necessary to the automatic recommendation of appropriate articles to readers …

In an effort to make reading more accessible, an automated readability formula can help
students to retrieve appropriate material for their language level. This study attempts to …

This paper investigates the effectiveness of 65 cohesion-based variables that are commonly
used in the literature as predictive features to assess text readability. We evaluate the …