A readability checker with supervised learning using deep indicators

Informatica (Ljubljana)

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 429-435

  Brück, Tim Vor Der ^a   Hartrumpf, Sven ^a   Helbig, Hermann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Nearest neighbor; Readability; Syntactic and semantic analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; SEMANTICS; SYNTACTICS;

AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED; DEPENDENCY TREES; INDICATOR VALUES; NEAREST NEIGHBOR; NEAREST NEIGHBOR ALGORITHMS; READABILITY; SEMANTIC ANALYSES; SEMANTIC INFORMATIONS; SEMANTIC NETWORKS; SENTENCE LENGTHS; SYNTACTIC AND SEMANTIC ANALYSIS; SYNTACTIC INFORMATIONS; WORD FREQUENCIES; WORD LENGTHS;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 57349173023     PISSN: 03505596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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