Stock market prediction has been a classical yet challenging problem, with the attention from
both economists and computer scientists. With the purpose of building an effective prediction …

This paper provides an overview of how analyses of linguistic features in writing samples
provide a greater understanding of predictions of both text quality and writer development …

The widespread adoption of ChatGPT, an AI language model, has the potential to bring
about significant changes to the research, teaching, and learning of foreign languages. The …

This study introduces the second release of the Tool for the Automatic Analysis of Lexical
Sophistication (TAALES 2.0), a freely available and easy-to-use text analysis tool. TAALES …

Syntactic complexity has been an area of significant interest in L2 writing development
studies over the past 45 years. Despite the regularity in which syntactic complexity measures …

Internationally recognised as one of the leading texts in its field, this volume offers a
comprehensive introduction to vocabulary for language teachers who would like to know …

In recent years, an increasing number of studies have focused on learning vocabulary from
audiovisual input. They have shown that learners can pick up new words incidentally when …

This paper introduces the CommonLit Ease of Readability (CLEAR) corpus, which provides
unique readability scores for~ 5000 text excerpts along with information about the excerpt's …

Research has identified a number of linguistic features that influence the reading
comprehension of young readers; yet, less is known about whether and how these findings …

Lexical sophistication is an important component of writing proficiency. New lexical indices
related to range, n-gram frequency, psycholinguistic word information, academic language …