A text analytics-based approach to compute coverage, readability and comprehensibility of eBooks

2013 6th International Conference on Contemporary Computing, IC3 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 256-261

  Khurana, Swati ^a   Relan, Mahima ^a   Singh, Vivek Kumar ^a  

^a SOUTH ASIAN UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Comprehensibility; Concept Extraction; eBook; Qualitative Evaluation; Readability; Text Analytics

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSIBILITY; CONCEPT EXTRACTION; EBOOK; QUALITATIVE EVALUATIONS; READABILITY; TEXT ANALYTICS;

ALGORITHMS;

ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING;

EID: 84886543859     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IC3.2013.6612200     Document Type: Conference Paper

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