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20202023
most citedLXPER Index: a curriculum-specific text readability assessment model for EFL students in Korea

7 citations · 16 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.CL2023

A Side-by-side Comparison of Transformers for English Implicit Discourse Relation Classification

Bruce W. Lee, BongSeok Yang, Jason Hyung-Jong Lee

Though discourse parsing can help multiple NLP fields, there has been no wide language model search done on implicit discourse relation classification. This hinders researchers fro…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

LFTK: Handcrafted Features in Computational Linguistics

Bruce W. Lee, Jason Hyung-Jong Lee

Past research has identified a rich set of handcrafted linguistic features that can potentially assist various tasks. However, their extensive number makes it difficult to effectiv…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Prompt-based Learning for Text Readability Assessment

Bruce W. Lee, Jason Hyung-Jong Lee

We propose the novel adaptation of a pre-trained seq2seq model for readability assessment. We prove that a seq2seq model - T5 or BART - can be adapted to discern which text is more…

cs.CL2023★ 4 cited

Traditional Readability Formulas Compared for English

Bruce W. Lee, Jason Hyung-Jong Lee

Traditional English readability formulas, or equations, were largely developed in the 20th century. Nonetheless, many researchers still rely on them for various NLP applications. T…

cs.CL2022★ 2 cited

Auto-Select Reading Passages in English Assessment Tests?

Bruce W. Lee, Jason H. Lee

We show a method to auto-select reading passages in English assessment tests and share some key insights that can be helpful in related fields. In specifics, we prove that finding…

cs.CL2021

Pushing on Text Readability Assessment: A Transformer Meets Handcrafted Linguistic Features

Bruce W. Lee, Yoo Sung Jang, Jason Hyung-Jong Lee

We report two essential improvements in readability assessment: 1. three novel features in advanced semantics and 2. the timely evidence that traditional ML models (e.g. Random For…

cs.CL2020★ 1 cited

LXPER Index 2.0: Improving Text Readability Assessment Model for L2 English Students in Korea

Bruce W. Lee, Jason Lee

Developing a text readability assessment model specifically for texts in a foreign English Language Training (ELT) curriculum has never had much attention in the field of Natural L…

cs.CL2020★ 7 cited

LXPER Index: a curriculum-specific text readability assessment model for EFL students in Korea

Bruce W. Lee, Jason Hyung-Jong Lee

Automatic readability assessment is one of the most important applications of Natural Language Processing (NLP) in education. Since automatic readability assessment allows the fast…