Lexical quality as a proxy for web text understandability

  • Authors:
  • Luz Rello;Ricardo Baeza-Yates

  • Affiliations:
  • Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain;Yahoo! Research, Barcelona, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 21st international conference companion on World Wide Web
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We show that a recently introduced lexical quality measure is also valid to measure textual Web accessibility. Our measure estimates the lexical quality of a site based in the occurrence in English Web pages of a large set of words with errors. We first compute the correlation of our measure with Web popularity measures to show that gives independent information. Second, we carry out a user study using eye tracking to prove that the degree of lexical quality of a text is related to the degree of understandability of a text, one of the factors behind Web accessibility.