A Language Modeling Approach to Predicting Reading Difficulty

We demonstrate a new research approach to the problem of predicting the reading difficulty of a text passage, by recasting readability in terms of statistical language modeling. We derive a measure based on an extension of multinomial na

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: NAACL
• Authors: Kevyn Collins-Thompson, James P. Callan
• Keywords: Grade Level, Language Modeling, NAACL 2004, NAACL 2007, Semantic Variables