Sorting texts by readability

Computational Linguistics

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 203-227

  Tanaka Ishii, Kumiko ^a   Tezuka, Satoshi ^a   Terada, Hiroshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATOR CIRCUITS; COMPARATORS (OPTICAL); REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CLASSIFICATION METHODS; READING LEVEL; REGRESSION METHOD; STATE OF THE ART; TRAINING DATA;

SORTING;

EID: 85047686249     PISSN: 08912017     EISSN: 15309312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/coli.09-036-R2-08-050     Document Type: Article

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