3 papers
cs.CL2024
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.CL2024
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.CL2024
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…