Toward a Unified Evaluation Method for Multiple Reading Support Systems: A Reading Speed-based Procedure

This paper proposes a unified evaluation method for multiple reading support systems such as a sentence translation system and a word translation system. In reading a non-native language text, these systems aim to lighten the reading burden. When we evaluate the performance of these systems, we cannot rely solely on these tests, as the output forms are different. Therefore, we must assess the performance of these systems based on the users’ reading comprehension and reading speed. We will further support our findings with experimental results. They show that the reading-speed procedure is able to evaluate the support systems, as well as, the comprehensionbased procedure proposed by Ohguro (1993) and Fuji et al. (2001).