Readability of French as a Foreign Language and its Uses

ADCS 2005 - Proceedings of the Tenth Australasian Document Computing Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 19-25

  Uitdenbogerd, Alexandra L ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Text readability

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE NUMBERS; FOREIGN LANGUAGE; LEVEL OF DIFFICULTIES; SENTENCE LENGTH; TEXT READABILITY;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84866858746     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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