This paper present a new readability formula for French as a foreign language (FFL), which
relies on 46 textual features representative of the lexical, syntactic, and semantic levels as …

Readability formulas are methods used to match texts with the readers' reading level.
Several methodological paradigms have previously been investigated in the field. The most …

Reading comprehension and fluency are crucial for successful academic learning and
achievement. Yet, a rather large percentage of children still have enormous difficulties in …

This book concerns scientific and technical issues that are of a high interest for several
aspects of the Informatics1 of the future. It is not the case to paint a surface of “dialogism” …

In this paper, we present the FABRA: readability toolkit based on the aggregation of a large
number of readability predictor variables. The toolkit is implemented as a service-oriented …

Readability research has a long and rich tradition, but there has been too little focus on
general readability prediction without targeting a specific audience or text genre. Moreover …

We present the COCTAILL corpus, containing over 700.000 tokens of Swedish texts from 12
coursebooks aimed at second/foreign language (L2) learning. Each text in the corpus is …

Readability is an almost century-old field that aims to match readers with texts based on
reproducible tools. It has a long history, but it is remarkable that the methodology used to …

In this paper, we report three experiments evaluating a variety of feature sets and models
intended to develop a new readability model for French as a Foreign Language (FFL) …

Analyser la complexité lexicale est une tâche qui, depuis toujours, a principalement retenu
l'attention de psycholinguistes et d'enseignants de langues. Plus récemment, cette …