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Readability Formula for Instructional Materials in Science
Davao Research Journal, 2000 The study developed and validated a readability formula using measurable variables of readability for physics instructional materials. In developing the formula, .30 reading passages of no less than 100 words each were selected from 18 different books ...
Jonathan Bayogan
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Examining the readability of patient-informed consent forms
Open Access Journal of Clinical Trials, 2010 Marli Terblanche, Lesley BurgessTREAD Research/Cardiology Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Tygerberg Hospital and University of Stellenbosch, Parow, South AfricaPrimary objective: To investigate the readability of informed consent forms (ICF) used ...
Marli Terblanche, Lesley Burgess
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Controlled language and readability [PDF]
, 2010 Controlled Language (CL) rules specify constraints on lexicon, grammar and style with the objective of improving text translatability, comprehensibility, readability and usability.
O'Brien, Sharon
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From corpus-based collocation frequencies to readability measure [PDF]
, 2006 This paper provides a broad overview of three separate but related areas of research. Firstly, corpus linguistics is a growing discipline that applies analytical results from large language corpora to a wide variety of problems in linguistics and related
Anagnostou, N.K., Weir, G.R.S.
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Readability Indices Do Not Say It All on a Text Readability
Analytics, 2023 We propose a universal readability index, GU, applicable to any alphabetical language and related to cognitive psychology, the theory of communication, phonics and linguistics.
Emilio Matricciani
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Ampersand, 2023 Background: Due to the increase bilingual population in the UK, it is imperative that reading materials are made accessible for them in and out of school.
Megha Sarin, Maria Garraffa
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Traditional Readability Formulas Compared for English
CoRR, 2023 Traditional English readability formulas, or equations, were largely developed in the 20th century. Nonetheless, many researchers still rely on them for various NLP applications. This phenomenon is presumably due to the convenience and straightforwardness of readability formulas. In this work, we contribute to the NLP community by 1.
Bruce W. Lee, Jason Hyung-Jong Lee
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Estimating readability with the Strathclyde readability measure [PDF]
, 2006 Despite their significant limitations, readability measures that are easy to apply have definite appeal. With this in mind, we have been exploring the prospects for more insightful measures that are computer-based and, thereby, still easily applied.
Weir, G.R.S., Ritchie, C.
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以適讀性公式挑選英文讀本之探究 How to Use Readability Formulas to Access and Select English Reading Materials [PDF]
Jiàoyù zīliào yǔ túshūguǎn xué, 2012 本研究旨在說明常用的適讀性公式。以三本英文讀本The empty pot（670字）、Smoky night（1,267字）、和Sarah, plain and tall（3,158字）為研究對象，以Microsoft Word文書處理軟體的可讀性公式、網路免費適讀工具的適讀公式、以及手算，進行讀物適讀年級程度的計算；其次，比較同一讀本在不同的適讀軟體公式或手算所得的結果是否相同？研究結果指出： 1.
Hai-Hon Chen
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An "AI readability" Formula for French as a Foreign Language.
, 2012 This paper present a new readability formula for French as a foreign language (FFL), which relies on 46 textual features representative of the lexical, syntactic, and semantic levels as well as some of the specificities of the FFL context. We report comparisons between several techniques for feature selection and various learning algorithms.
François, Thomas, Fairon, Cédrick
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