obtaining informed consents is one of the most fundamental principles in conducting a clinical trial. in order for the consent to be informed, the patient must receive and comprehend the information appropriately. complexity of the consent form is a common problem that has been shown to be a major barrier to comprehension for many patients. the objective of this study was to assess the readabil...

With the development of the global economy and the ease of air transportation, extra emphasis has been placed on flight safety. There are precise specifications and procedures in the operation and maintenance of aircraft. Human errors and mechanical disorders are two key factors of flight safety. The maintenance personnel need to follow an outlined procedure to avoid human errors and ensure fli...

Readability is a major issue with all maps. In this study, we evaluated whether we can predict map readability using analytical measures, both single measures and composites of measures. A user test was conducted regarding the perceived readability of a number of test map samples. Evaluations were then performed to determine how well single measures and composites of measures could describe the...

Readability of a summary is usually graded manually on five aspects of readability: grammaticality, coherence and structure, focus, referential clarity and non-redundancy. In the context of automated metrics for evaluation of summary quality, content evaluations have been presented through the last decade and continue to evolve, however a careful examination of readability aspects of summary qu...

We investigate whether measures of readability can be used to identify age-specific TV programs. Based on a corpus of BBC TV subtitles, we employ a range of linguistic readability features motivated by Second Language Acquisition and Psycholinguistics research. Our hypothesis that such readability features can successfully distinguish between spoken language targeting different age groups is fu...

One way to determine whether consumers understand a document is to use a readability formula to assign it a score.' These formulas calculate readability by counting such variables as the number of words and syllables in a passage or document. The idea of readability formulas has been defined as "an equation which combines those text features that best predict text difficulty. The equation is us...

Language learning, as expressed through word-acquisition and readability, plays an important role in both psycholinguistic theories and information system engineering. We present a statistical model for document readability that is based on the logistic Rasch model and the quantiles of word acquisition age distributions. We exploit this connection to infer the distributions of acquisition ages ...

We present an initial study examining the benefits of incorporating readability indicators in social network-related tasks. In order to do so, we introduce TweetRead, a readability assessment tool specifically designed for Twitter and use it to inform the hashtag prediction process, highlighting the importance of a readability signal in recommendation tasks.