A posteriori agreement as a quality measure for readability prediction systems

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6609 LNCS, Issue PART 2, 2011, Pages 424-435

  Van Oosten, Philip ^a,b   Hoste, Véronique ^a,b   Tanghe, Dries ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE GHENT   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION BIAS; CLASSIFICATION MECHANISM; DATA SETS; POSTERIORI; PREDICTION SYSTEMS; QUALITY MEASURES; RESEARCH QUESTIONS; USER GROUPS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; TEXT PROCESSING; WORD PROCESSING;

FORECASTING;

EID: 79952259767     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-19437-5_35     Document Type: Conference Paper

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