Visual readability analysis: How to make your writings easier to read

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 662-674

  Oelke, Daniela ^a   Spretke, David ^a   Stoffel, Andreas ^a   Keim, Daniel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Document and text processing; feature evaluation and selection

Indexed keywords

DOCUMENT AND TEXT PROCESSING; FEATURE EVALUATION AND SELECTION; FEATURE VALUES; VISUAL ANALYSIS; VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS;

TEXT PROCESSING;

QUALITY CONTROL;

ARTICLE; BOOK; COMPREHENSION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY; READING; WRITING;

BOOKS; COMPREHENSION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINGUISTICS; READING; SOFTWARE; WRITING;

EID: 84859000470     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2011.266     Document Type: Article

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