Assessing agreement on classification tasks: the kappa statistic
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Making large-scale support vector machine learning practical
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A statistical model for scientific readability
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Text genre classification with genre-revealing and subject-revealing features
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Text Categorization with Suport Vector Machines: Learning with Many Relevant Features
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Relevance Feedback using Support Vector Machines
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A Comparative Study on Feature Selection in Text Categorization
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Support vector machine active learning with applications to text classification
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A maximum-entropy-inspired parser
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Automatic detection of text genre
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Text genre detection using common word frequencies
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Language and task independent text categorization with simple language models
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Sentence alignment for monolingual comparable corpora
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Predicting reading difficulty with statistical language models
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Reading level assessment using support vector machines and statistical language models
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Automatic readability assessment for people with intellectual disabilities
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A comparison of features for automatic readability assessment
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Revisiting the readability assessment of texts in Portuguese
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Classic children's literature - difficult to read ?
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READ-IT: assessing readability of Italian texts with a view to text simplification
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Ranking-based readability assessment for early primary children's literature
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Building readability lexicons with unannotated corpora
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PITR '12 Proceedings of the First Workshop on Predicting and Improving Text Readability for target reader populations
Customizing search results for non-native speakers
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Assessing user-specific difficulty of documents
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Reading proficiency is a fundamental component of language competency. However, finding topical texts at an appropriate reading level for foreign and second language learners is a challenge for teachers. Existing measures of reading level are not well suited to this task, where students may know some difficult topic-related vocabulary items but not have the same level of sophistication in understanding complex sentence constructions. Recent work in this area has shown the benefit of using statistical language processing techniques. In this paper, we use support vector machines to combine features from n-gram language models, parses, and traditional reading level measures to produce a better method of assessing reading level. We explore the use of negative training data to handle the problem of rejecting data from classes not seen in training, and compare the use of detection vs. regression models on this task. As in many language processing problems, we find substantial variability in human annotation of reading level, and explore ways that multiple human annotations can be used in comparative assessments of system performance.