Towards an improved methodology for automated readability prediction

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 775-782

  Van Oosten, Philip ^a   Tanghe, Dries ^a   Hoste, Véronique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE GHENT   (Belgium)

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FORECASTING; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

20TH CENTURY; COLLINEARITY; CORRELATION MATRIX; GOLD STANDARDS; PREDICTION METHODS; WEB APPLICATION;

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