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The concept of readability
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This article is published in Literacy.The article was published on 1968-06-01. It has received 214 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Readability.read more
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The Principles of Readability.
TL;DR: The Principles of Readability gives a brief introduction to the literacy studies in the U.S. and the research on readability and the readability formulas.
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A Systematic Review of Readability and Comprehension Instruments Used for Print and Web-Based Cancer Information
TL;DR: This systematic review evaluates readability instruments used to assess print and Web-based cancer information and word recognition and comprehension tests (Cloze, REALM, TOFHLA, WRAT) that measure people's health literacy.
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Predicting the “helpfulness” of online consumer reviews
Jyoti Prakash Singh,Seda Irani,Nripendra P. Rana,Yogesh K. Dwivedi,Sunil Saumya,Pradeep Kumar Roy +5 more
TL;DR: This research has developed models based on machine learning that can predict the helpfulness of the consumer reviews using several textual features such as polarity, subjectivity, entropy, and reading ease to help buyers to write better reviews and thereby assist other buyers in making their purchase decisions.
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Coh-Metrix: Capturing Linguistic Features of Cohesion
TL;DR: The results provide a validation of Coh-Metrix, thereby paving the way for its use by researchers in cognitive science, discourse processes, and education, as well as for textbook writers, professionals in instructional design, and instructors.
Computational Assessment of Text Readability: A Survey of Current and Future Research Running title: Computational Assessment of Text Readability
TL;DR: Background on how readability of texts is assessed automatically is provided, the current state-of-the-art algorithms in automatic modeling and predicting the reading difficulty of texts are reviewed, and new challenges and opportunities for future exploration not well-covered by current computational research are proposed.