4 papers
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…
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…
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…
Language Models Don't Learn the Physical Manifestation of Language
Bruce W. Lee, JaeHyuk Lim
We argue that language-only models don't learn the physical manifestation of language. We present an empirical investigation of visual-auditory properties of language through a ser…