We investigate the effectiveness of using an accepted readability index, the Flesch Reading Ease (FRE) scale, to design prompts for an automatic oral proficiency assessment system. The prompts in question are uttered by the system, and must be repeated from memory by the test subjects, in the form of an elicited imitation exercise. The FRE scores for our prompts are shown to correlate well with...

Using physiological data helps to identify the cognitive processing in human brain. One method of obtaining these behavioral signals is by using eye-tracking technology. Previous psychology literature shows that readable and difficult-to-read texts are associated with certain eye movement patterns, which has recently encouraged researchers use patterns for readability assessment tasks. However,...

For INEX 2011 QA track, we wanted to measure the impact of two generic measures of readability in the selection of sentences related to topics. This is a step towards adaptive information retrieval approaches that take into account the reading skills of users and their level of expertise. We show that Flesch and Dale-Chall measures do not allow to filter sentences for obtaining a satisfactory r...

I investigate Russian second language readability assessment using a machine-learning approach with a range of lexical, morphological, syntactic, and discourse features. Testing the model with a new collection of Russian L2 readability corpora achieves an F-score of 0.671 and adjacent accuracy 0.919 on a 6-level classification task. Information gain and feature subset evaluation shows that morp...

Objective:Patient information leaflets (PILs) are widely used to reinforce or illustrate health information and to complement verbal consultation. The objectives of the study were to assess the readability and presentation of PILs published by Allergy UK, and to conduct a longitudinal assessment to evaluate the impact of leaflet amendment and revision on readability. Methods:Readability of Alle...

Generally, people with dyslexia are poor readers but strong visual thinkers. The use of graphical schemes for helping text comprehension is recommended in education manuals. This study explores the relation between text readability and the visual conceptual schemes which aim to make the text more clear for these specific target readers. Our results are based on a user study for Spanish native s...

In recent years linguistic research has turned increasing attention to covert/overt strategies to modulate authorial stance and positioning in scientific texts, and to the recipients' response. This study discussed some theoretical implications of the use of rhetoric in scientific communication and analysed qualitative data from the authoritative The Cognitive Neurosciences III (2004) volume. I...

This study aims to describe the use of translation techniques and quality speech act accommodating verbal bullying events. is a qualitative descriptive research which type content analysis with single case on subtitle films. The data were collected by using document Focus Group Discussion (FGD) method aim obtaining validity data. results show that there are 176 656 at micro level in used 13 typ...

The aims of this research were to find the type category shift, and quality assessment noun phrase translation in novel Divergent. Based on theory Catford (1965). Also, Nababan (2012) for assessment. This used a descriptive–qualitative method. To achieve study, researcher some techniques analyze data such as reading collecting data, underlining shift text novel, categorizing types assessing acc...