Building Readability Lexicons with Unannotated Corpora

NAACL-HLT 2012 - Predicting and Improving Text Readability for Target Reader Populations, PITR 2012, Proceedings of the Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 33-39

  Brooke, Julian ^a   Tsang, Vivian ^b   Jacob, David ^b   Shein, Fraser ^a,b   Hirst, Graeme ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Quillsoft Ltd   (Canada)

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NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; TEXT PROCESSING;

AUTOMATIC CREATIONS; COARSE-GRAINED; EDUCATIONAL APPLICATIONS; SIMPLE++; TERM FREQUENCY; WEB DOCUMENT;

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EID: 85035793379     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
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