METHODS: All top-rated tweets (as per Twitter algorithm) under #PlasticSurgery in January 2017 were retrospectively reviewed. Data from tweets with links to full, open access and society/ institutional patient information articles were extracted. Content and identity of the person tweeting was assessed. Readability was analyzed using established tests: Coleman-Liau, Flesch-Kincaid, Flesch Readi...

This paper examines the readability of the chairman’s narratives, as determined by the Flesch score, of a Malaysian public listed company’s corporate reports from 1962 to 2009. It partially supports earlier studies which demonstrated that corporate reports were difficult to read, and had shown very negligible decrease in difficulty over time. Net profit to sales and readability was significantl...

This paper investigates two strategies for collecting readability assessments, an Expert Readers application intended to collect fine-grained readability assessments from language experts and a Sort by Readability application designed to be intuitive and open for everyone having internet access. We show that the data sets resulting from both annotation strategies are very similar. We conclude t...

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BACKGROUND Significant knowledge gaps exist related to evaluating health product risk communication effectiveness in a regulatory setting. To this end, Health Canada is assessing methods to evaluate the effectiveness of their health product risk communications in an attempt to identify best practices. OBJECTIVE We examined the health literacy burden of Public Advisories (PAs) before and after...

The paper illustrates the results of a case study aimed at investigating and enhancing the accessibility of Italian health– related documents by relying on advanced NLP techniques, with particular attention to informed consent forms. Results achieved show that the features automatically extracted from the linguistically annotated text and ranging across different levels of linguistic descriptio...

BACKGROUND Accurate assessment of the difficulty of consumer health texts is a prerequisite for improving readability. General purpose readability formulas based primarily on word length are not well suited for the health domain, where short technical terms may be unfamiliar to consumers. To address this need, we previously developed a regression model for predicting "average familiarity" with ...

During software programming, code readability is very important because it affects the understanding of the code context, facilitates communication and collaboration between team members, and it avoids problematic software maintenance. In this study, our research hypothesis was that the coding style affects the code readability. Developers who do not comply with coding conventions and guideline...

Readability is considered as a important element in effective communication. The patent claims are regarded as typical bad example of readability since they are written in long sentences and the structure is complex among different claims. In one patent document, the several claims contain hierarchical structure within each other. In this project, we want to improve the patent claims readabilit...