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 ...

Several studies on children and adults with and without linguistic impairment have reported differences between verb and noun processing. The present study assessed whether noun and verb bases affect differently children’s reading of derived words. Thirty-six Italian good readers and 18 poor readers, all 4th or 5th graders, were asked to read aloud nouns derived from either a noun base (e.g., a...

The objective of the current investigation is to replicate the results of a previous study on subgrouping of poor readers. One important aim of the study to be replicated was to develop tools, not only for identifying poor readers, which is a rather straightforward task, but also for examining the pattern of poor reading based on a theoretical analysis of the reading process. Eight distinct sub...

The vast majority of neural and computational models of visual-word recognition assume that lexical access is achieved via the activation of abstract letter identities. Thus, a word's overall shape should play no role in this process. In the present lexical decision experiment, we compared word-like pseudowords like viotín (same shape as its base word: violín) vs. viocín (different shape) in ma...

"We're facing a trend where people are being constantly encouraged to store more and more of their data with third parties," says Kevin Bankston, a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a technology policy watchdog organization. Bankston says the EFF's objection isn't to the trend itself. "To the extent the law keeps up or these things are designed such that the government can...

Italian children (n = 125) were classified into dyslexics, poor readers and ordinary readers. The dyslexics were further classified into the Boder and Bakker subtypes. The children were tested with the form-resolving field (FRF), which measures central and peripheral visual recognition. Dyslexics show higher correct identification of letters in the periphery, supporting the notion of a differen...

ABSTRACTThe aim of the study was to investigate the syllable activation hypothesis in French beginning readers. Second graders performed a lexical decision task in which bisyllabic words were presented in two colours that either matched the syllable boundaries or not. The data showed that the children were sensitive to syllable match and to syllable complexity. In addition, good readers were sl...

Individuals with dyslexia are purported to have a selective dorsal stream impairment that manifests as a deficit in perceiving visual global motion relative to global form. However, the underlying nature of the visual deficit in readers with dyslexia remains unclear. It may be indicative of a difficulty with motion detection, temporal processing, or any task that necessitates integration of loc...