Readerbench, an environment for analyzing text complexity and reading strategies

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

Volumn 7926 LNAI, Issue , 2013, Pages 379-388

  Dascalu, Mihai ^a,b   Dessus, Philippe ^b,c   Trausan Matu, Ştefan ^a   Bianco, Maryse ^b   Nardy, Aurélie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Latent Dirichlet Allocation; Latent Semantic Analysis; Reading Strategies; Support Vector Machines; Text Cohesion; Textual Complexity

Indexed keywords

STATISTICS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

LATENT DIRICHLET ALLOCATION; LATENT SEMANTIC ANALYSIS; READING STRATEGIES; TEXT COHESION; TEXTUAL COMPLEXITY;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 84880016425     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-39112-5_39     Document Type: Conference Paper

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