Abstract

ISLAM, Zahurul  and  MEHLER, Alexander. Automatic Readability Classification of Crowd-Sourced Data based on Linguistic and Information-Theoretic Features. Comp. y Sist. [online]. 2013, vol.17, n.2, pp.113-123. ISSN 2007-9737.

This paper presents a classifier of text readability based on information-theoretic features. The classifier was developed based on a linguistic approach to readability that explores lexical, syntactic and semantic features. For this evaluation we extracted a corpus of 645 articles from Wikipedia together with their quality judgments. We show that information-theoretic features perform as well as their linguistic counterparts even if we explore several linguistic levels at once.

Keywords : Text readability; Wikipedia; enthropy; information transmission; evaluation of features.

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