Lexical quality as a proxy for Web text understandability

WWW'12 - Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on World Wide Web Companion

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 591-592

  Rello, Luz ^a   Baeza Yates, Ricardo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b YAHOO RESEARCH   (Spain)

Author keywords

Lexical quality; Understandability; Web accessibility

Indexed keywords

EYE-TRACKING; QUALITY MEASURES; UNDERSTANDABILITY; USER STUDY; WEB ACCESSIBILITY;

HARDWARE; WORLD WIDE WEB;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84861043593     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2187980.2188142     Document Type: Conference Paper

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