Results 251 to 260 of about 11,117 (302)

A New Formula for Vietnamese Text Readability Assessment

2018 10th International Conference on Knowledge and Systems Engineering (KSE), 2018
Text readability has an important role in text drafting and document selecting. Most studies on the readability of the text have been made long ago for English and some common languages. There are few researches about Vietnamese text readability and most of them are performed more than three decades ago on very small corpora.
An-Vinh Luong
exaly   +2 more sources

Readability formulas: Useful or useless?

IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 1987
In an interview with Dr. J. Peter Kincaid, the value of readability formulas and computer editing systems to the engineer who writes on the job is explored. Dr. Kincaid developed the Kincaid Readability Formula, the standard used in judging the reading levels of Department of Defense manuals. The presentation is in a question and answer format.
exaly   +2 more sources

Understanding the limitations of readability formulas

IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 1981
Readability formulas are becoming increasingly popular as a tool that writers use to test and revise their material. Used appropriately, a readability formula can provide a quick and easy general measure of how difficult a text may be for its readers. Writers who use a readability formula, however, should do so with caution.
exaly   +2 more sources

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious: Why Using the “Right” Readability Formula in Children’s Web Search Matters

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2022
Readability is a core component of information retrieval (IR) tools as the complexity of a resource directly affects its relevance: a resource is only of use if the user can comprehend it. Even so, the link between readability and IR is often overlooked.
Garrett Allen, Ashlee Milton, Katherine Landau Wright   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

READABILITY FORMULAS: AN OVERVIEW

Journal of Documentation, 1987
The aim of this paper is to review some of the findings in the field of readability research. First, the differences in meaning between the terms ‘readability’ and ‘legibility’ are discussed. Next, the origins and developments of readability formulas are examined in detail. Then, the best‐known formulas for English language material are described so as
openaire   +1 more source

Readability Formulas

Management Communication Quarterly, 1992
The legitimacy and methodology of using statistical measures to assess the readability of documents has been widely debated in the business and management communication literature. This article identifies major philosophical, methodological, and pedagogical issues in the controversy and explores their implications for using numerical readability ...
openaire   +1 more source

Readability formulas in the new millennium

ACM Journal of Computer Documentation, 2000
While readability formulas were intended as a quick benchmark for indexing readabilty, they are inherently unreliable: they depend on criterion (calibration) passages too short to reflect cohesiveness, too varied to support between-formula comparisons, and too text-oriented to account for the effects of lists, enumerated sequences,and tables on text ...
openaire   +1 more source

Assessing the validity of readability formulas

2021
Dissertation to determine the validity of traditional readability formulas as measures of readability and ...
openaire   +1 more source

Readability formulas: Cautions and criteria

Patient Education and Counseling, 1991
Health care practitioners are being confronted with the uneven fit between the reading skill level of patients and the reading difficulty level of health-based literature. Readability formulas are being used to obtain a seemingly precise measure of the latter.
Cathy D Meade, Cyrus F Smith
openaire   +1 more source