Towards an integrated approach for evaluating textual complexity for learning purposes

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7558 LNCS, Issue , 2012, Pages 268-278

  Dascǎlu, Mihai ^a,b   Trausan Matu, Stefan ^a   Dessus, Philippe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Latent Semantic Analysis; readability; Support Vector Machines; textual complexity

Indexed keywords

EVALUATION MODELS; EVALUATION PROCESS; HOLISTIC APPROACH; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LATENT SEMANTIC ANALYSIS; READABILITY; SEMANTIC LEVELS; TEXTUAL ANALYSIS; TEXTUAL COMPLEXITY;

E-LEARNING; INFORMATION THEORY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; WEBSITES;

FACTOR ANALYSIS;

EID: 84866045395     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-33642-3_29     Document Type: Conference Paper

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