PPT-Readability Assessment for Text Simplification

Sandra Aluisio 1 Lucia Specia 2 Caroline Gasperin 1 Carolina Scarton 1 1 University of São Paulo Brazil 2 University of Wolverhampton UK The 5th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications. A Survey of Current and Future Research Running title: ComputationalAssessment of Text Readability Kevyn CollinsThompson Associate Professor University of Michigan, School of Information 105 South St Readability Scores What is a readability score? A readability score is the grade level you need to have completed to be able to read the text. Pros and Cons of Readability Formulas Are text-based Resource: . Syntactic simplification and text . cohesion, . Advaith. . Siddharthan. Text Simplification. process that . reduces. the . syntactic. or . lexical. complexity . of a . text. preserve . David Kauchak. CS159 – Fall 2014. Collaborators: Will . Coster. , Dan . Feblowitz. . and . Gondy. Leroy. Admin. Paper draft due 5pm Wednesday. Must be done with all of your experiments. “Results” section is required. Basics. Creating Effective Handouts, Flyers and Brochures. Your task. (If you choose to accept it!). Design a handout for today’s presentation. Freedom to use . desktop publishing software . can sometimes lead to . research . on readability in Malay Language . Dr. Dahlia . Janan. Research title:. Matching text to reader: exploring a new model of readability for Malay language . texts. Funded by: . Research Acculturation Grants (RAGS). What is Readability?. A characteristic of text documents... “the sum total of all those elements within a given piece of printed material that affect the success . of a . group of readers have with it. . with Fry’s Readability Graph… What numbers do I use? 1. Randomly select three 100-word segments of 2. Count the number of syllables in each 100-word block and calculate the average. 3. C its use at NIU. Presidential Commission on Persons with Disabilities. Advise the President. Promote accessibility. Collaborate and advocate. PCPD’s Mission. Language Influences Perception. “. Accessibility. Calculating the readability of a text. You have been asked to analyze a piece of writing, considering (among other things) its readability. How can you calculate the ease with which it can be read?. Prepared for SSAC by. Cody Dunne and Ben Shneiderman. Human-Computer Interaction Lab & . Department of Computer Science. University of Maryland. Contact: cdunne@cs.umd.edu. 26. th. Annual Human-Computer Interaction Lab Symposium. Cody Dunne and Ben Shneiderman. {cdunne, ben}@. cs.umd.edu. 30. th. . Annual . Human-Computer Interaction Lab Symposium, May 22–23, 2013. College Park, . MD. Who Uses Network Analysis. Network Analysis is Hard. Text Simplification David Kauchak CS159 – Spring 2019 Collaborators: Will Coster , Dan Feblowitz and Gondy Leroy Admin Final projects Wednesday’s lecture Text simplification Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. CS159 – Fall 2014. Collaborators: Will . Coster. , Dan . Feblowitz. . and . Gondy. Leroy. Admin. Paper draft due 5pm Wednesday. Must be done with all of your experiments. “Results” section is required.