Matching readers' preferences and reading skills with appropriate web texts

EACL 2009 - 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 49-52

  Miltsakaki, Eleni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

READING ABILITIES; READING LEVEL; READING SKILLS; REAL-TIME SEARCHES; WEB TEXTS; WEB-BASED SYSTEM; XML FORMAT;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84876813832     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1609049.1609062     Document Type: Conference Paper

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