How many words do we read per minute? A review and meta-analysis of reading rate

M Brysbaert - Journal of memory and language, 2019 - Elsevier
Based on the analysis of 190 studies (18,573 participants), we estimate that the average
silent reading rate for adults in English is 238 words per minute (wpm) for non-fiction and …

Textual analysis in accounting: What's next?

K Bochkay, SV Brown, AJ Leone… - Contemporary …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Natural language is a key form of business communication. Textual analysis is the
application of natural language processing (NLP) to textual data for automated information …

Supervised and unsupervised neural approaches to text readability

M Martinc, S Pollak, M Robnik-Šikonja - Computational Linguistics, 2021 - direct.mit.edu
We present a set of novel neural supervised and unsupervised approaches for determining
the readability of documents. In the unsupervised setting, we leverage neural language …

[HTML][HTML] Scientific abstracts and plain language summaries in psychology: A comparison based on readability indices

J Stricker, A Chasiotis, M Kerwer, A Günther - PLoS One, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Findings from psychological research are usually difficult to interpret for non-experts. Yet,
non-experts resort to psychological findings to inform their decisions (eg, whether to seek a …

[HTML][HTML] A large-scaled corpus for assessing text readability

S Crossley, A Heintz, JS Choi, J Batchelor… - Behavior Research …, 2023 - Springer
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 …

Moving beyond classic readability formulas: New methods and new models

SA Crossley, S Skalicky… - Journal of Research in …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Background Advances in natural language processing (NLP) and computational linguistics
have facilitated major improvements on traditional readability formulas that aim at predicting …

Readability controllable biomedical document summarization

Z Luo, Q Xie, S Ananiadou - arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.04705, 2022 - arxiv.org
Different from general documents, it is recognised that the ease with which people can
understand a biomedical text is eminently varied, owing to the highly technical nature of …

A framework of effective science explanation videos informed by criteria for instructional explanations

C Kulgemeyer - Research in Science Education, 2020 - Springer
Science explanation videos, especially online ones, have become popular. They cover
nearly all topics from school science curricula. Teachers use them in a flipped classroom …

[HTML][HTML] E-book of metacognitive learning strategies: design and implementation to activate student's self-regulation

E Susantini, RP Puspitawati, Raharjo… - Research and Practice in …, 2021 - Springer
ICT-based learning provides opportunities for teachers and students to learn digitally, as
well as letting the students become autonomous learners. One of the efforts to actualize …

Children on ChatGPT readability in an educational context: myth or opportunity?

E Murgia, MS Pera, M Landoni, T Huibers - Adjunct Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
In this work, we present the results of a preliminary exploration aiming to understand
whether the use of ChatGPT in an educational context can be an asset to meet the specific …