Computational approaches to readability assessment are generally built and evaluated using gold standard corpora labeled by publishers or teachers rather than being grounded in observations about human performance. Considering that both the reading process and the outcome can be observed, there is an empirical wealth that could be used to ground computational analysis of text readability. This ...

OBJECTIVE Recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP) is a rare disease for which a limited number of information sources for patients exist. The role of the Internet in the patient-physician relationship is increasing. More and more patients search for online health information, which should be of good quality and easy readable. The study aim was to investigate the quality and readability of En...

Background: Patient education is taken into account as one of the key components of comprehensive care as well as one of the significant nursing functions in order to increase community health. In this respect, education materials and written texts can improve patient information up to 50% and consequently meet patient satisfaction. Readability is considered as an integral concept in patient ed...

conclusions the majority of the trauma-related articles from the aaos patient education website have readability levels that may make comprehension difficult for a substantial portion of the patient population. results the mean (sd) grade level readability for all patient education articles was 8.8 (1.1). all but three of the articles had a readability score above the sixth-grade level. the rea...

The purpose of the study was to identify and describe translation techniques, methods ideologies used in translating Arabic cartoon subtitles Muhsin Mahasin versions Youtube channel SFH quality as impact methods, applied, terms accuracy, acceptance ,readability. This research uses qualitative approaches using descriptive methods. Included data are video Mahasin, while sources muhsin videos link...

This study aims to describe the types of directive illocutionary speech acts, translation techniques, and quality acts in Kitab Bulūghul Marām. The research method used this is a descriptive qualitative with data collection such as recording documents, questionnaires, interviews. After that, were analyzed using Spradley domain analysis, taxonomy, componential, cultural themes. results show that...

Abstract The present study is an attempt to investigate the relationship between cohesive readability of expository texts and reading comprehension in EFL students with different proficiency levels. One hundred students formed the participant of this study. They were undergraduate students majoring in English at University of Isfahan. To collect the relevant data, participants were divide...

Effective communication shows a positive impact on patient satisfaction, compliance and medical outcomes, at the same time reducing the healthcare costs. Written information for patients needs to correspond to health literacy levels of the intended audiences. Readability formulas correlate well with the reading and comprehension tests but are considered an easier and quicker method to estimate ...

Guinaudeau and Strube (2013) introduce a graph based model to compute local entity coherence. We propose a computationally efficient normalization method for these graphs and then evaluate it on three tasks: sentence ordering, summary coherence rating and readability assessment. In all tasks normalization improves the results.