We provide a perspective on the current state of Arabic readability assessment research with
the objective of considering directions and opportunities for future research. We review and …

Text readability assessment is a well-known problem that has acquired even more
importance in today's information-rich world. In this article, we survey various approaches to …

In this paper, we present a Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) Sentence difficulty classifier,
which predicts the difficulty of sentences for language learners using either the CEFR …

Readability is a measure that associates a written text to a reader's skill or grade level.
Readability assessment is very important in the field of second or foreign language (L2) …

Automatic readability assessment is relevant to building NLP applications for education,
content analysis, and accessibility. However, Arabic readability assessment is a challenging …

Background Waterpipe (WP) use is rapidly increasing among young people worldwide due
to the widespread misperception that it is safer than cigarette smoking. Health warning …

Reading in a foreign language is a difficult task, especially if the texts presented to readers
are chosen without taking into account the reader's skill level. Foreign language learners …

Advances in automatic readability assessment can impact the way people consume
information in a number of domains. Arabic, being a low-resource and morphologically …

As part of the current move towards open science, there is increasing pressure for scientists
to share their research data. In support of this, several journals only publish descriptions of …

Today there is a large amount of valuable research on corpora, and the availability of
corpora has increased significantly in recent years. Unfortunately, this is not the case for all …