The automatic analysis and categorization of web text has witnessed a booming interest due to the increased text availability of different formats, content, genre and authorship. We present a new tool that searches the web and performs in real-time a) html-free text extraction, b) classification for thematic content and c) evaluation of expected reading difficulty. This tool will be useful to a...

We compared Finnish adults' and children's eye movements on long (8-letter) and short (4-letter) target words embedded in sentences, presented either normally or as disappearing text. When reading disappearing text, where refixations did not provide new information, the 8- to 9-year-old children made fewer refixations but more regressions back to long words compared to when reading normal text....

Eye-tracking reading times have been attested to reflect cognitive processes underlying sentence comprehension. However, the use of reading times in NLP applications is an underexplored area of research. In this initial work we build an automatic system to assess sentence complexity using automatically predicted eye-tracking reading time measures and demonstrate the efficacy of these reading ti...

Text contains a range of different spatial frequencies but the effectiveness of spatial frequencies for normal variations in skilled adult reading ability is unknown. Accordingly, young skilled adult readers showing fast or slow reading ability read sentences displayed as normal or filtered to contain only very low, low, medium, high, or very high spatial frequencies. Reading times and eye move...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the role right foveal/parafoveal sparing plays in reading single words, word arrays, and eye movement patterns in a single case with an incongruous hemianopia. METHODS The patient, a 48-year-old right handed male with a macular sparing hemianopia in his left eye and a macular splitting hemianopia in his right eye, performed various reading tasks. Single word reading s...

Close reading is an important research method to analyze and interpret text in traditional humanities research. In the last decades, a huge amount of historical texts have been made available due to large scale digitization projects and facilitated distant reading methods. In the last decade, a number of visualization techniques were developed that support distant reading tasks as they aid to e...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to establish basic reading performance that could lead to useful design recommendations for print display text formats and layouts for the improvement of reading and comprehension performance of print text, such as academic writings, books, and newspapers, of Arabic language. BACKGROUND Readability of English print text has been shown to be influenced...