Combining NLP with evidence-based methods to find text metrics related to perceived and actual text difficulty

IHI'12 - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 749-753

  Leroy, Gondy ^a   Endicott, James E ^a  

^a CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Actual difficulty; Health informatics; Natural language processing; Perceived difficulty; Readability

Indexed keywords

ACTUAL DIFFICULTY; HEALTH INFORMATICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PERCEIVED DIFFICULTY; READABILITY;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84857730515     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2110363.2110452     Document Type: Conference Paper

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