Readability applied to information retrieval

Authors:
Lorna Kane;Joe Carthy;John Dunnion
Affiliations:
Intelligent Information Retrieval Group, School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland;Intelligent Information Retrieval Group, School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland;Intelligent Information Retrieval Group, School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
Venue:
ECIR'06 Proceedings of the 28th European conference on Advances in Information Retrieval
Year:
2006

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Abstract

Readability refers to all characteristics of a document that contribute to its ‘ease of understanding or comprehension due to the style of writing' [1]. The readability of a text is dependent on a number of factors, including but not constrained to; its legibility, syntactic difficulty, semantic difficulty and the organization of the text [2]. As many as 228 variables were found to influence the readability of a text in Gray and Leary's seminal study [2]. These variables were classified as relating to document content, style, format or, features of organization.