This paper addresses the task of readability assessment for the texts aimed at second
language (L2) learners. One of the major challenges in this task is the lack of significantly …

Arabic natural language processing (ANLP) consists of developing techniques and tools that
can utilize and analyze the Arabic language in both written and spoken contexts. ANLP …

Readability assessment is the task of evaluating the reading difficulty of a given piece of text.
Although research on computational approaches to readability assessment is now two …

Automatic Readability Assessment (ARA), the task of assigning a reading level to a text, is
traditionally treated as a classification problem in NLP research. In this paper, we propose …

(1. 北京语言大学信息科学学院, 北京100083; 2. 北京语言大学对外汉语研究中心, 北京100083;
3. 北京语言大学汉语速成学院, 北京100083) 摘要: 文本可读性问题最初由教育学家提出 …

We present approaches for the identification of sentences understandable by second
language learners of Swedish, which can be used in automatically generated exercises …

We present a new method to bootstrap filter Twitter language ID labels in our dataset for
automatic language identification (LID). Our method combines geo-location, original Twitter …

We present Lärka, the language learning platform of Språkbanken (the Swedish Language
Bank). It consists of an exercise generator which reuses resources available through …

In this study, we evaluate the informativeness of lexical, morphological and semantic
features in determining the readability of texts geared towards learners of Arabic as a foreign …

Reading is the most critical skill for satisfactory progress in school, as well as being highly
important for access to information throughout one's life. For this reason, readability is one of …