A comparison of features for automatic readability assessment

Coling 2010 - 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 276-284

  Feng, Lijun ^a   Jansche, Martin ^b   Huenerfauth, Matt ^a   Elhadad, Noémie ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b GOOGLE INC   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

EXPLANATORY VARIABLES; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; LANGUAGE MODEL; LANGUAGE MODELING; PREDICTIVE POWER; PRIMARY SCHOOLS; SENTENCE LENGTH; STATE OF THE ART; SYNTACTIC FEATURES;

SYNTACTICS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 80053409771     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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