Circular anchored maps have been proposed as a drawing technique to acquire knowledge from bipartite graphs, where nodes in one set are arranged on a circumference. However, the readability decreases when large-scale graphs are drawn. To maintain the readability in drawing large-scale graphs, we developed “sphere anchored maps,” in which nodes in one set are arranged on a sphere. We describe th...

Much of the text of pen resources such as Wikipedia is written at a college level of readability, thus posing an access barrier to the general public. Reading levels are important when considering wiki approaches for a K-12 OER community, and even more so when developing for minority language schools. In Canada, many students learning in a minority language setting lack the environmental influe...

This paper reports the relation between text readability and word distribution in the Japanese language. There was no similar study in the past due to three major obstacles: (1) unclear definition of Japanese “word”, (2) no balanced corpus, and (3) no readability measure. Compilation of the Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese (BCCWJ) and development of a readability predictor remov...

While the automatic analysis of the readability of texts has a long history, the use of readability assessment for text simplification has received only little attention so far. In this paper, we explore readability models for identifying differences in the reading levels of simplified and unsimplified versions of sentences. Our experiments show that a relative ranking is preferable to an absol...

This study is a preliminary examination into the use of Coh-Metrix, a computational tool that measures cohesion and text difficulty at various levels of language, discourse, and conceptual analysis, as a means of measuring English text readability. The study uses 3 Coh-Metrix variables to analyze 32 academic reading texts and their corresponding readability scores. The results show that two ind...

A readability measure that can reliably estimate the difficulty level of sample texts has great potential in ESL teaching. We argue for the inclusion of collocation frequency as a generic factor in estimates of ESL text readability, since the readability of any text will be affected adversely by the presence of collocations. Collocational word combinations are seldom amenable to comprehension s...

In formal proof checking environments such as Mizar it is not merely the validity of mathematical formulas that is evaluated in the process of adoption to the body of accepted formalizations, but also the readability of the proofs that witness validity. As in case of computer programs, such proof scripts may sometimes be more and sometimes be less readable. To better understand the notion of re...

OBJECTIVE To assess the quality, readability and coverage of website information about herbal remedies for menopausal symptoms. STUDY DESIGN A purposive sample of commercial and non-commercial websites was assessed for quality (DISCERN), readability (SMOG) and information coverage. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Non-parametric and parametric tests were used to explain the variability of these factor...

Text complexity can be reduced by making different choices at the lexical and grammatical levels. However, discourse-level choices may also affect a text’s complexity. In a coherent text, explicit discourse relations (e.g. CAUSE, CONDITION) are expressed using discourse markers (e.g. since, because, etc.) that may be preferred for texts at different readability levels. In this paper, we investi...