This study examined the readability of the AANA Journal, quantifying the effect of peer review on case and research reports published from 1992 to 1994. Gunning and Flesch index-based computer analysis, as well as human comparative analysis, was undertaken. Computer and human assessment of readability revealed improvement as papers evolved from submitted to published versions; however, at publi...

We measured entropy and symbolic diversity of texts written in English and Spanish. We included texts by Literature Nobel laureates and other famous authors. We formed four groups of texts according to the combinations of language used and the author's Literature Nobel Prize condition. Entropy, symbol diversity and symbol frequency profiles were compared for these four groups. We also built a s...

The paper presents IRIT’s approach used at INEX Tweet Contextualization Track 2013. Systems had to provide a context to a tweet. This year we further modified our approach presented at INEX 2011 and 2012 underlain by the product of scores based on hashtag processing, TF-IDF cosine similarity measure enriched by smoothing from local context and document beginning, named entity recognition and pa...

We investigate the effectiveness of using an accepted readability index, the Flesch Reading Ease (FRE) scale, to design prompts for an automatic oral proficiency assessment system. The prompts in question are uttered by the system, and must be repeated from memory by the test subjects, in the form of an elicited imitation exercise. The FRE scores for our prompts are shown to correlate well with...

Tingkat keterbacaan suatu teks dapat menunjukkan siapa target pembacanya. Sementara itu, berkaitan dengan aktivitas literasi yang dilakukan di lingkungan pendidikan formal, pembelajar diharapkan memiliki kemampuan membaca dan memahami berbagai jenis teks, baik ilmiah maupun non-ilmiah. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pembaca artikel berita daring Seeker melakukan analisis terhadap tin...

This paper describes a collection of correlated communicative samples collected from the same individuals across six diverse genres. Three of the genres were computer mediated: email, blog, and chat, and three non-computer-mediated: essay, interview, and discussion. Participants were drawn from a college student population with an equal number of males and females recruited. All communication e...

We propose a statistical sentence simplification system with log-linear models. In contrast to state-of-the-art methods that drive sentence simplification process by hand-written linguistic rules, our method used a margin-based discriminative learning algorithm operates on a feature set. The feature set is defined on statistics of surface form as well as syntactic and dependency structures of t...

Consumer health information written by health care professionals is often inaccessible to the consumers it is written for. Traditional readability formulas examine syntactic features like sentence length and number of syllables, ignoring the target audience’s grasp of the words themselves. The use of specialized vocabulary disrupts the understanding of patients with low reading skills, causing ...

Readability formulas are methods used to match texts with the readers’ reading level. Several methodological paradigms have previously been investigated in the field. The most popular paradigm dates several decades back and gave rise to well known readability formulas such as the Flesch formula (among several others). This paper compares this approach (henceforth ”classic”) with an emerging par...

In this paper we describe the participation of InfoLab in the patient-centred information retrieval task of the CLEF eHealth 2016 lab. We analyse the performance of several query expansion strategies using different sources of terms and different methods to select the terms to be added to the original query. One of the strategies uses pseudo relevance feedback for term selection. The other stra...