Assessing the relative reading level of sentence pairs for text simplification

14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2014, EACL 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 288-297

  Sowmya, Vajjala ^a   Detmar, Meurers ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC ANALYSIS; READING LEVEL; RELATIVE RANKINGS; RELEVANT TARGET;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84905695831     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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