A New Text Readability Measure for Fiction Texts

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Coleman Dalvean ◽  
Galbadrakh Enkhbayar
Keyword(s):  
Text Readability ◽  
Readability Measure

The Usefulness of Readability Formulas in the Insurance Industry

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 339-351
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Barczuk
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Insurance Industry ◽  
Insurance Market ◽  
Insurance Companies ◽  
Text Readability ◽  
The Given ◽  
Readability Formulas

The aim of this paper is to characterize the most important methods which are used to determine the level of text readability. The author presents practical examples of the usage of chosen methods by foreign insurance companies. The final section of the study is completed with general conclusions relating to the application of the given solutions to the Polish insurance market. 

A Tool for Assessing Text Suitability for Greek Language Teaching

2017 ◽  
Vol 56 (7) ◽  
pp. 1030-1055 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chrystalla Neofytou ◽  
Thanasis Hadzilacos
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Usability Evaluation ◽  
Greek Language ◽  
Text Corpus ◽  
Text Readability ◽  
Research Gap ◽  
The Web

Viewing its use in language teaching mainly as a text corpus, this article examines the problem of the assessment of suitability of this material for use in the Greek language course in Cyprus schooling. The suitability of texts for use in language teaching is defined by four parameters, which are described in detail in this article: text readability, content, genre, and grammatical information. The literature review shows the research gap as to the ways of finding on the Web a suitable text for use in language teaching according to specific characteristics. The tool diaKeimenou, which is presented in this article, aims to fill this gap and help the teacher choose the most suitable texts for teaching with reasonable effort and time. The results of the usability evaluation of diaKeimenou are also presented in this article.

An Introduction to Multilevel Analyses of Text Readability in Accounting and Finance

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fang Yang ◽  
Chun Chia Amy Chang ◽  
Lun Mo
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Multilevel Analyses ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Syntactic Structures ◽  
Multiple Measures ◽  
Text Readability ◽  
Word Concreteness

The present study introduces an assessment that includes multiple measures of language and discourse within the theoretical frameworks of comprehension in education and cognitive science. We utilize an automated textual assessment tool, Coh-Metrix, to analyze the Management Discussion and Analysis (MD&A) sections of annual reports to determine if significant differences in text readability are present between bankrupt and nonbankrupt companies. When applying Coh-Metrix indices, the MD&A sections of nonbankrupt companies appear to be easier to understand in terms of word concreteness, referential and deep (or causal) cohesion, and syntactic simplicity. More specifically, the MD&A sections of nonbankrupt companies contain more concrete wording, simpler syntactic structures, more word co-references to tie words and ideas, and more causal and intentional connectives to establish causal and logical relationships within the text.

Text Simplification

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Horacio Saggion
Keyword(s):  
Language Processing ◽  
Language Resources ◽  
The Past ◽  
Text Simplification ◽  
Text Readability ◽  
Target User ◽  
Evaluation Approaches ◽  
Linguistic Impairment ◽  
Automatic Text ◽  
The Web

Over the past decades, information has been made available to a broad audience thanks to the availability of texts on the Web. However, understanding the wealth of information contained in texts can pose difficulties for a number of people including those with poor literacy, cognitive or linguistic impairment, or those with limited knowledge of the language of the text. Text simplification was initially conceived as a technology to simplify sentences so that they would be easier to process by natural-language processing components such as parsers. However, nowadays automatic text simplification is conceived as a technology to transform a text into an equivalent which is easier to read and to understand by a target user. Text simplification concerns both the modification of the vocabulary of the text (lexical simplification) and the modification of the structure of the sentences (syntactic simplification). In this chapter, after briefly introducing the topic of text readability, we give an overview of past and recent methods to address these two problems. We also describe simplification applications and full systems also outline language resources and evaluation approaches.

scholarly journals The readability of two Grade 4 natural sciences textbooks for South African schools

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucy Sibanda
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
South African ◽  
Second Language Learners ◽  
Intermediate Phase ◽  
Educational Achievement ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Reading Level ◽  
Text Readability ◽  
Transitional Challenges

This paper, deriving from a larger study, evaluates the readability of two Grade 4 natural sciences textbooks used by learners who speak English as an additional language in two South African schools. The study is set within the context of the reading-related transitional challenges faced by English second language learners when they move from the foundation phase to the intermediate phase. Text readability is critical for educational achievement during this transition. The case study was conducted by means of a qualitative content analysis of factors that are not accommodated in the readability formulae which were used to investigate the textbooks. While the findings from the two instruments were ambivalent for Book 1, with the content analysis showing the book to be largely readable, but the readability calculator indicating it to be beyond the learners’ reading level, both instruments indicated poor readability for Book 2. The study recommends a close consideration of text readability by both authors and teachers.

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