Reconstructing readability: Recent developments and recommendations in the analysis of text difficulty

RG Benjamin - Educational Psychology Review, 2012 - Springer
Largely due to technological advances, methods for analyzing readability have increased
significantly in recent years. While past researchers designed hundreds of formulas to …

A large-scale comparison of human-written versus ChatGPT-generated essays

S Herbold, A Hautli-Janisz, U Heuer, Z Kikteva… - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
ChatGPT and similar generative AI models have attracted hundreds of millions of users and
have become part of the public discourse. Many believe that such models will disrupt society …

Syntactic complexity measures: variation by genre, grade-level, students' writing abilities, and writing quality

T Jagaiah, NG Olinghouse, DM Kearns - Reading and Writing, 2020 - Springer
Syntactic complexity has been recognized as an important construct in writing research, and
for the past five decades, many syntactic complexity measures (SCMs) have been examined …

[图书][B] Automated evaluation of text and discourse with Coh-Metrix

DS McNamara, AC Graesser, PM McCarthy, Z Cai - 2014 - books.google.com
Coh-Metrix is among the broadest and most sophisticated automated textual assessment
tools available today. Automated Evaluation of Text and Discourse with Coh-Metrix …

The tool for the automatic analysis of lexical sophistication (TAALES): Version 2.0

K Kyle, S Crossley, C Berger - Behavior research methods, 2018 - Springer
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 …

Automatically assessing lexical sophistication: Indices, tools, findings, and application

K Kyle, SA Crossley - Tesol Quarterly, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This study explores the construct of lexical sophistication and its applications for measuring
second language lexical and speaking proficiency. In doing so, the study introduces the Tool …

[PDF][PDF] Measuring syntactic development in L2 writing: Fine grained indices of syntactic complexity and usage-based indices of syntactic sophistication

K Kyle - 2016 - scholarworks.gsu.edu
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 …

MTLD, vocd-D, and HD-D: A validation study of sophisticated approaches to lexical diversity assessment

PM McCarthy, S Jarvis - Behavior research methods, 2010 - Springer
The main purpose of this study was to examine the validity of the approach to lexical
diversity assessment known as the measure of textual lexical diversity (MTLD). The index for …

Does writing development equal writing quality? A computational investigation of syntactic complexity in L2 learners

SA Crossley, DS McNamara - Journal of Second Language Writing, 2014 - Elsevier
This study examines second language (L2) syntactic development in conjunction with the
effects such development has on human judgments of writing quality (ie, judgments of both …

Do massively pretrained language models make better storytellers?

A See, A Pappu, R Saxena, A Yerukola… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
Large neural language models trained on massive amounts of text have emerged as a
formidable strategy for Natural Language Understanding tasks. However, the strength of …