In formal proof checking environments such as Mizar it is not merely the validity of mathematical formulas that is evaluated in the process of adoption to the body of accepted formalizations, but also the readability of the proofs that witness validity. As in case of computer programs, such proof scripts may sometimes be more and sometimes be less readable. To better understand the notion of re...

OBJECTIVE To assess the quality, readability and coverage of website information about herbal remedies for menopausal symptoms. STUDY DESIGN A purposive sample of commercial and non-commercial websites was assessed for quality (DISCERN), readability (SMOG) and information coverage. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Non-parametric and parametric tests were used to explain the variability of these factor...

Text complexity can be reduced by making different choices at the lexical and grammatical levels. However, discourse-level choices may also affect a text’s complexity. In a coherent text, explicit discourse relations (e.g. CAUSE, CONDITION) are expressed using discourse markers (e.g. since, because, etc.) that may be preferred for texts at different readability levels. In this paper, we investi...

BACKGROUND This study examined the content and general readability of pediatric oral health education materials for parents of young children. METHODS Twenty-seven pediatric oral health pamphlets or brochures from commercial, government, industry, and private nonprofit sources were analyzed for general readability ("usability") according to several parameters: readability, (Flesch-Kincaid gra...

This paper addresses the problem of automatic evaluation of text simplification systems for Spanish. We test whether already-existing readability formulae would be suitable for this task. We adapt three existing readability indices (two measuring lexical complexity and one measuring syntactic complexity) to be computed automatically, which are then applied to a corpus of original news texts and...

Latest research has shown that the readability of documents plays an important role in information seeking and acquisition, especially for non-domain-expert users. Classical document readability measures are based on surface text features, independent of users. In this paper, we propose to integrate text features with the users’ eye movement features. The latter is expected to reflect a user’s ...

This document presents a readability test designed to optimise the readability of package leaflets for medicinal products. Patients often find leaflets incomprehensible, which in part explains the high percentage of medications disposed of before being taken. So patient information must be formulated that an averagely educated user can understand its content and follow its instructions. The pap...

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...

Sarday, O cber 7, 2017 cities of Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami and New York attained mean readability grade levels of 12.2, standard error of the mean (SEM)±0.28; 12.2, SEM±0.24; 11.6 SEM±0.28; 12.3 SEM±0.24; and 12.9 SEM±0.33 respectively, with significant difference in mean demonstrated between articles of New York and Los Angeles (p=0.018). There was no significant difference in readab...