Information about benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) has become increasingly accessible on the Internet. Though the ability to find such material is encouraging, its readability and impact on informing patient decision making are not known. To evaluate the readability of Internet-based information about BPH in the context of website ownership and Health on the Net certification, three search en...

Studies have shown that modern methods of readability assessment, using automated linguistic analysis and machine learning (ML), is a viable road forward for readability classification and ranking. In this paper we present a study of different levels of analysis and a large number of features and how they affect an ML-system’s accuracy when it comes to readability assessment. We test a large nu...

Text classification is a process where documents are categorized usually by topic, place, readability easiness, etc. For text classification by topic, a well-known method is Singular Value Decomposition. For text classification by readability, “Flesh Reading Ease index” calculates the readability easiness level of a document (e.g. easy, medium, advanced). In this paper, we propose Singular Valu...

This study compared 2 main approaches to readability assessment. Thequantitative approach applied idea density based on part of speech tagging andcompared 3 sets of text types (i.e., narrative, expository, and argumentative) withrespect to their ease of reading. The qualitative approach was done throughdeveloping questionnaires measuring intermediate EFL learners’ perceptions oncontent, motivat...

obtaining informed consents is one of the most fundamental principles in conducting a clinical trial. in order for the consent to be informed, the patient must receive and comprehend the information appropriately. complexity of the consent form is a common problem that has been shown to be a major barrier to comprehension for many patients. the objective of this study was to assess the readabil...

With the development of the global economy and the ease of air transportation, extra emphasis has been placed on flight safety. There are precise specifications and procedures in the operation and maintenance of aircraft. Human errors and mechanical disorders are two key factors of flight safety. The maintenance personnel need to follow an outlined procedure to avoid human errors and ensure fli...

Readability is a major issue with all maps. In this study, we evaluated whether we can predict map readability using analytical measures, both single measures and composites of measures. A user test was conducted regarding the perceived readability of a number of test map samples. Evaluations were then performed to determine how well single measures and composites of measures could describe the...

Readability of a summary is usually graded manually on five aspects of readability: grammaticality, coherence and structure, focus, referential clarity and non-redundancy. In the context of automated metrics for evaluation of summary quality, content evaluations have been presented through the last decade and continue to evolve, however a careful examination of readability aspects of summary qu...