Determining the reading level of children’s literature is an important task for providing educators and parents with an appropriate reading trajectory through a curriculum. Automating this process has been a challenge addressed before in the computational linguistics literature, with most studies attempting to predict the particular grade level of a text. However, guided reading levels develope...

This study aims to develop e-SW or e-LKPD products, test the feasibility of 7E products based on expert assessments, practicality assessment chemistry teachers and peer reviewers, find out responses students in terms readability effectiveness products. The method this research is R&D with a 4-D development model. sampling technique used cluster random techniques. Interviews, questionnaires,...

In the final project paper we consider a graph parameter called readability. Motivation for readability comes from bioinformatics applications. Graphs arising in problems related to genome sequencing are of small readability, which motivates the study of graphs of small readability. We present an algorithm due to Braga and Meidanis, which shows that every digraph is isomorphic to the overlap gr...

OBJECTIVE Readability has been claimed to be an important factor for understanding texts describing health symptoms and medications. Such texts may be a factor which indirectly affects the health of the population. Despite the expertise of physicians, the readability of information sources may be important for acquiring essential treatment information. The aim of this study was to measure the r...

BACKGROUND Treatment for colorectal cancer (CRC) may result in physical, social, and psychological needs that affect patients' quality of life post-treatment. A comprehensive assessment should be conducted to identify these needs in CRC patients post treatment, however, there is a lack of tools and processes available in general practice. AIMS This study aimed to develop a patient-completed n...

BACKGROUND Patients increasingly use the internet to access health information. Inadequate health literacy is common and frequently limits patient comprehension of healthcare literature. We aimed to assess the readability of online consumer-orientated Parkinson's disease (PD) information using two validated measures. METHOD We identified the 100 highest ranked consumer-orientated PD webpages ...

Several sets of explanatory variables – including shallow, language modeling, POS, syntactic, and discourse features – are compared and evaluated in terms of their impact on predicting the grade level of reading material for primary school students. We find that features based on in-domain language models have the highest predictive power. Entity-density (a discourse feature) and POS-features, ...

Various search engines are available to clinical trial seekers. However, it remains unknown how comprehensible clinical trial eligibility criteria used for recruitment are to a lay audience. This study initially investigated this problem. Readability of eligibility criteria was assessed according to (i) shallow and lexical characteristics through the use of an established, generic readability m...

Cancer is the leading cause of death in Japan. A total of 805,236 new cases of cancer and 364,872 deaths from cancer were estimated in 2010 and 2013 (National Cancer Center, 2014). However, cancer screening rates in Japan are lower than those in Western countries. The screening rates for breast cancer in women aged 50-69 years and cervical cancer in women aged 20-69 years in 2010 were 80.4% and...