Luo Si
Jamie Callan
ABSTRACT
In this paper, we present a new method of using statistical models to estimate readability [1]. Language Model is used to capture the content information. It is combined with linguistic feature model by a linear form. Experiments show that this new method has a better performance than the widely used Flesch-Kincaid readability formula.
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Index Terms
- A statistical model for scientific readability
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