A Language-Independent Approach to Automatic Text Difficulty Assessment for Second-Language Learners

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 30-38

  Shen, Wade ^a   Williams, Jennifer ^a   Marius, Tamas ^b   Salesky, Elizabeth ^a  

^a MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

^b DLI Foreign Language Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

BAG OF WORDS; LANGUAGE INDEPENDENTS; MEAN SQUARED ERROR; READING LEVEL; SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNERS; SUPPORT VECTORS MACHINE; WEIGHTED VECTOR;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 84994349204     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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