Learning to predict readability using diverse linguistic features

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 546-554

  Kate, Rohit J ^a   Luo, Xiaoqiang ^b   Patwardhan, Siddharth ^b   Franz, Martin ^b   Florian, Radu ^b   Mooney, Raymond J ^a   Roukos, Salim ^b   Welty, Chris ^b  

^a University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; DIVERSE FEATURES; FEATURE SETS; LANGUAGE MODEL; LINGUISTIC FEATURES;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

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EID: 80053420234     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
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