OBJECTIVE To analyze readability and legibility of a systematic sample of health education materials made available at a health center, and to propose recommendations for improvement. DESIGN Observational, descriptive study. SETTING An urban health center in Madrid, Spain. MATERIAL A sample of text from 326 health education documents. MAIN MEASURES The 326 texts were classified accordin...

Study Design An Internet-based evaluation of Web sites regarding lumbar fusion. Objective The Internet has become a major resource for patients; however, the quality and readability of Internet information regarding lumbar fusion is unclear. The objective of this study is to evaluate the quality and readability of Internet information regarding lumbar fusion and to determine whether these measu...

One drawback of KeyGraph is its poor readability. Providing qualified documents are expected helpful for KeyGraph to translate the documents an appropriate and easy read KeyGraph diagram. And further, to discover worthy chances for decision making. We proposed 2 preprocessing strategies for assuring appropriate quality of documents, especially for decision makers when they try to discover chanc...

Readability depends on many factors ranging from shallow features like word length to semantic ones like coherence. We introduce novel graph-based coherence features based on frequent subgraphs and compare their ability to assess the readability of Wall Street Journal articles. In contrast to Pitler and Nenkova (2008) some of our graph-based features are significantly correlated with human judg...

In this paper, we explore the concept of code readability and investigate its relation to software quality[1]. This is a new approach to measuring the complexity of software systems[2]. Software industry uses software metrics to measure the complexity of software systems for software cost estimation, software development control, software assurance, software testing, and software maintenance [3...

SIMPLIFICA is an authoring tool for producing simplified texts in Portuguese. It provides functionalities for lexical and syntactic simplification and for readability assessment. This tool is the first of its kind for Portuguese; it brings innovative aspects for simplification tools in general, since the authoring process is guided by readability assessment based on the levels of literacy of th...

Assessing text readability is a time-honored problem that has even more relevance in today’s information-rich world. This article provides background on how readability of texts is assessed automatically, reviews the current state-of-the-art algorithms in automatic modeling and predicting the reading difficulty of texts, and proposes new challenges and opportunities for future exploration not w...

BACKGROUND Gastroparesis is a chronic condition that can be further enhanced with patient understanding. Patients' education resources on the Internet have become increasingly important in improving healthcare literacy. We evaluated the readability of online resources for gastroparesis and the influence by medical terminology. METHODS Google searches were performed for "gastroparesis", "gastr...

Online healthcare information is used by patients, their carers and families (PCF) experiencing speech and language difficulties (SLD) after a stroke. This information may be of variable quality. Tools have been designed to assess the risk of poor information quality, evaluating both generic and specific concepts, yet none focus on stroke. The readability of information is also an issue when co...