We investigate the problem of reading level assessment for German texts on a newly
compiled corpus of freely available easy and difficult articles, targeted at adult and child …

An adequate level of linguistic complexity in learning materials is believed to be of crucial
importance for learning. The implication for school textbooks is that reading complexity …

Depression is a serious illness that affects millions of people globally. In recent years, the
task of automatic depression detection from speech has gained popularity. However, several …

Code comments provide abundant information that have been leveraged to help perform
various software engineering tasks, such as bug detection, specification inference, and code …

Recent studies have uncovered substantial individual differences in first language (L1)
language attainment across the lifespan and across multiple components of language. The …

The package cleanNLP provides a set of fast tools for converting a textual corpus into a set
of normalized tables. The underlying natural language processing pipeline utilizes …

We analyze two novel data sets of German educational media texts targeting adults and
children. The analysis is based on 400 automatically extracted measures of linguistic …

Modern software systems are becoming increasingly complex, relying on a lot of third-party
library support. Library behaviors are hence an integral part of software behaviors …

Security systems frequently rely on warning messages to convey important information,
especially when a machine is not able to assess a situation automatically. There is a …

Computer vision often treats human perception as homogeneous: an implicit assumption
that visual stimuli are perceived similarly by everyone. This assumption is reflected in the …