Generating Readable Texts for Readers with Low Basic Skills

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Reading errors made by skilled and unskilled readers: evaluating a system that generates reports for people with poor literacy

We describe work in progress evaluating a natural language generation system that generates literacy assessment reports. Research is on generating more readable documents. We previously evaluated comprehension and reading speed. Here we investigate reading errors. Do modifications the system makes result in less errors? We present preliminary results. As expected, poor readers make more errors ...

The Extent of Using the Basic Vocabulary in the First Grade Quran Textbook

The Extent of Using the Basic Vocabulary in the First Grade Quran Textbook S. B. Alavi Moghaddam, Ph.D. Textbooks need to be written in such a way that their readers can understand the written texts. One way of ensuring this objective in first grade textbooks would be the use of basic vocabulary, as determined by Ne'matzadeh, et.al. (1384). Considering the importance of the Quran text...

Language choice models for microplanning and readability

This paper describes the construction of language choice models for the microplanning of discourse relations in a Natural Language Generation system that attempts to generate appropriate texts for users with varying levels of literacy. The models consist of constraint satisfaction problem graphs that have been derived from the results of a corpus analysis. The corpus that the models are based o...

Reading Multimodal Texts in the 21st Century

Discussions concerning which literacy skills will be required of students in the 21st century have appeared in numerous educational publications recently and have been greeted with mixed reactions (Bellanca & Brandt, 2010; Trilling & Fadel, 2009). It has been proposed that the skills necessary to be a literate citizen in the new millennium have expanded from simply being able to read and write ...