Trends, limitations and open challenges in automatic readability assessment research

S Vajjala - arxiv preprint arxiv:2105.00973, 2021 - arxiv.org
Readability assessment is the task of evaluating the reading difficulty of a given piece of text.
Although research on computational approaches to readability assessment is now two …

A neural pairwise ranking model for readability assessment

J Lee, S Vajjala - arxiv preprint arxiv:2203.07450, 2022 - arxiv.org
Automatic Readability Assessment (ARA), the task of assigning a reading level to a text, is
traditionally treated as a classification problem in NLP research. In this paper, we propose …

Assessing sentence readability for German language learners with broad linguistic modeling or readability formulas: When do linguistic insights make a difference?

Z Weiss, D Meurers - Proceedings of the 17th workshop on …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
We present a new state-of-the-art sentence-wise readability assessment model for German
L2 readers. We build a linguistically broadly informed machine learning model and compare …

Automatische Analysen von Erwerbsstufen in einer großen Lernerkorpus-Datenbank für DaF/DaZ. Das Forschungsprojekt DAKODA

K Wisniewski, T Zesch… - Korpora …, 2023 - kordaf.tujournals.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de
Abstract Der Beitrag stellt das Forschungsprojekt DAKODA vor, dessen Ziel es ist, eine
breite Lernerkorpus-Datenbasis zu erstellen und mit sprachtechnologischen Verfahren …

Sprachliche Komplexität im Unterricht: Eine computerlinguistische Analyse der gesprochenen Sprache von Lehrenden und Lernenden im naturwissenschaftlichen …

Z Weiss, K Lange-Schubert, B Geist… - Zeitschrift für …, 2022 - degruyter.com
We investigate the linguistic complexity of oral classroom interactions in late primary and
early secondary school across German school types. The goal is to explore whether …

Automatic readability assessment of German sentences with transformer ensembles

PG Blaneck, T Bornheim, N Grieger… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Reliable methods for automatic readability assessment have the potential to impact a variety
of fields, ranging from machine translation to self-informed learning. Recently, large …

Automatic readability assessment for closely related languages

JM Imperial, E Kochmar - arxiv preprint arxiv:2305.13478, 2023 - arxiv.org
In recent years, the main focus of research on automatic readability assessment (ARA) has
shifted towards using expensive deep learning-based methods with the primary goal of …

Cross-corpus readability compatibility assessment for English texts

Z Li, H Ding, S Zhang - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Text readability assessment has gained significant attention from researchers in various
domains. However, the lack of exploration into corpus compatibility poses a challenge as …

[PDF][PDF] Investigating the generalizability of Portuguese readability assessment models trained using linguistic complexity features

S Akef, A Mendes, D Meurers… - Proceedings of the 16th …, 2024 - aclanthology.org
This paper discusses our effort to build an automatic Portuguese readability assessment
system aimed at Portuguese language learners. We demonstrate that using linguistic …

Korean Syntactic Complexity Analyzer (KOSCA): An NLP application for the analysis of syntactic complexity in second language production

H Hwang, H Kim - Language Testing, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Given the lack of computational tools available for assessing second language (L2)
production in Korean, this study introduces a novel automated tool called the Korean …