Offline Sentence Processing Measures for testing Readability with Users

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 17-24

  Siddharthan, Advaith ^a   Katsos, Napoleon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; COMPUTER GENERATED; MAGNITUDE ESTIMATION; OFF-LINE METHODS; OFFLINE; PROPERTY; SENTENCE PROCESSING;

EID: 85041103407     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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