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| Title | Automatic Assessment of Japanese Text Readability Based on a Textbook Corpus |
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| Authors | Satoshi Sato, Suguru Matsuyoshi and Yohsuke Kondoh |
| Abstract | This paper describes a method of readability measurement of Japanese texts based on a newly compiled textbook corpus. The textbook corpus consists of 1,478 sample passages extracted from 127 textbooks of elementary school, junior high school, high school, and university; it is divided into thirteen grade levels and the total size is about a million characters. For a given text passage, the readability measurement method determines the grade level to which the passage is the most similar by using character-unigram models, which are constructed from the textbook corpus. Because this method does not require sentence-boundary analysis and word-boundary analysis, it is applicable to texts that include incomplete sentences and non-regular text fragments. The performance of this method, which is measured by the correlation coefficient, is considerably high (R > 0.9); in case that the length of a text passage is limited in 25 characters, the correlation coefficient is still high (R = 0.83). |
| Language | Single language |
| Topics | Tools, systems, applications, Authoring tools, proofing, Corpus (creation, annotation, etc.) |
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Automatic Assessment of Japanese Text Readability Based on a Textbook Corpus |
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| Bibtex | @InProceedings{SATO08.165, author = {Satoshi Sato, Suguru Matsuyoshi and Yohsuke Kondoh}, title = {Automatic Assessment of Japanese Text Readability Based on a Textbook Corpus}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08)}, year = {2008}, month = {may}, date = {28-30}, address = {Marrakech, Morocco}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair), Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis, Daniel Tapias}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {2-9517408-4-0}, note = {http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/}, language = {english} } |