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,...

Fundamentals of materials represent a core subject at engineering universities dealing with various construction materials. The study the discipline and acquiring knowledge demand properly designed manual. Apart from content, manual authors should pay attention to way they compose text. Different tools are applied assess quality (its difficulty, complexity, readability). Readability formulae pl...

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...

an erosion hazard index methodology (ehim) was developed for assessing stream erosion. the index of stream erosion is designed as a management tool. assessing stream erosion involves consideration of a range of aspects of streams and a value judgment about a desirable state. the assessment of the erosion indicators of streams was based on a state-wide assessment of physical stream condition. a ...

Two-tone pseudo coloring (TTPC) is an effective technique to visualize one-dimensional quantitative data. TTPC was originally proposed for only one-dimensional data. In this work, we present novel applications of TTPC. We combine TTPC with a table lens to facilitate the visualization of ndimensional quantitative data. To increase the applicability of two-tone pseudo coloring for data with high ...

Reviews of the medical literature have always been an important resource for physicians. Increasingly, qualitative and quantitative systematic reviews (SRs) have replaced the traditional "narrative review" as a means of capturing and summarizing current evidence on a topic or, when possible, answering a specific clinical question. This paper is Part II of a 2-part series designed to provide eme...