We show that the quality of sentence-level subjectivity classification, i.e. the task of deciding whether a sentence is subjective or objective, can be improved by incorporating hitherto unused features: readability measures. Hence we investigate in 6 different readability formulae and propose an own. Their performance is evaluated in a 10-fold cross validation setting using machine learning. T...

Objective: This study attempted to establish a consistent measurement technique for calculating readability on a state-wide Certified Nursing Assistant’s (CNA) certification exam. Background: Monitoring the readability level of an exam helps ensure all test versions do not exceed the maximum reading level of the exam, and that knowledge of the subject matter, rather than reading ability, is bei...

The Social Interaction Anxiety Scale and Social Phobia Scale are widely used measures of social anxiety. Using data from individuals with social anxiety disorder (n = 435) and nonanxious controls (n = 86), we assessed the psychometric properties of two independently developed short forms of these scales. Indices of convergent and discriminant validity, diagnostic specificity, sensitivity to tre...

Website usability is one of the core factors of evaluating the application level of e-commerce of an area. To study and compare the application levels between Chinese and Thai e-commerce websites, the website usability should be considered first. In this study, an independent third-party online usability testing tool is used to make a test on the e-commerce website between the two countries mai...

An experimental examination of the readability of a car-navigation system by elderly, middle-aged and young people was conducted. Subjects (127 people: 19-76 years of age) evaluated ease of reading of displayed characters. The experiment evaluated characters displayed on a liquid crystal display (LCD) similar to those used in car-navigation systems, and evaluated subjective evaluation of readab...

BACKGROUND The package leaflet included in the packaging of all medicinal products plays an important role in the transmission of medicine-related information to patients. Therefore, in 2009, the European Commission published readability guidelines to try to ensure that the information contained in the package leaflet is understood by patients. OBJECTIVE The main objective of this study was t...