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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"text readability"”.
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Assessing text readability and quality with language models
Automatic readability assessment is considered as a challenging task in NLP due to its high degree of subjectivity. The majority prior work in assessing readability has focused on identifying the level of education necessary for comprehension without the consideration of text quality, i.e., how …
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Text readability and summarisation for non-native reading comprehension
… aspects of non-native reading comprehension: text readability assessment, which estimates the reading difficulty of a given text for L2 learners, and learner summarisation assessment, which evaluates the quality of learner summaries to assess their reading comprehension. We approach both tasks …
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Beyond text analysis : image-based evaluation of health-related text readability using style features
Many studies have shown that the readability of health documents presented to consumers does not match their reading levels. An accurate assessment of the readability of health-related texts is an important step in providing material that match readers' literacy. Current readability measurements …
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Effects of color CRT misconvergence and font type on text readability and subjective preference
… reading task and rated the image quality of the text they had just seen using a nine-point scale. The text was presented on a shadow-mask CRT. Different misconvergence types and amounts and different font types were presented. Neither font type, misconvergence type, nor misconvergence amount …
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The effects of luminance contrast, raster modulation, and ambient illumination on text readability and subjective image quality
… raster modulation, and ambient illumination on readability and image quality of text presented on a CRT display. Participants read a Tinker Speed of Reading text passage on the monitor and then responded when they found the out-of-context word in the passage. Correct responses and response times …
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A Study of Reading with A Handheld Computer
… size. In an attempt to find factors affecting text readability on the small screen of handheld computers, this study, first, reviewed basic reading process and reading model, previous studies examining potential factors affecting text readability on a small handheld screen. This study …
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An evaluation of methods of indicating active words in hypertext documents
… of indicating active (linked) words in hypertext documents were investigated. The Methods consisted of font-manipulation techniques (such as shadowed and outlined text), word-enclosure techniques (variations of a box and pseudo-brackets around the word), and "punctuation-like" icons (located …
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Sentence Simplification for Text Processing
… simplifications, automated estimations of the readability of system output, and surveys of human opinions on the grammaticality, accessibility, and meaning of automatically produced simplifications. Chapter 7 presents extrinsic evaluation of the sentence simplification method exploiting …