Process / pipeline
Text Complexity Analysis — Readability Assessment
Text complexity analysis measures the linguistic difficulty of a text along dimensions such as syntactic complexity (sentence length, embedded clauses), lexical density, and referential chains. Grounded in readability research consolidated by Vajjala and Meurers (2014) and Crossley and colleagues (2011), it turns prose into quantitative scores that estimate how hard a document is to read.
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Sources
- Vajjala, S. & Meurers, D. (2014). Readability Assessment for Text Simplification: From Analysing Documents to Identifying Sentential Simplifications. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 165(2), 194-222. DOI: 10.1075/itl.165.2.04vaj ↗
- Crossley, S.A., Allen, D.B. & McNamara, D.S. (2011). Text Readability and Intuitive Simplification: A Comparison of Readability Formulas. Reading in a Foreign Language, 23(1), 84-101. link ↗