The nature of statistical learning theory
The nature of statistical learning theory
Making large-scale support vector machine learning practical
Advances in kernel methods
A statistical model for scientific readability
Proceedings of the tenth international conference on Information and knowledge management
Text genre classification with genre-revealing and subject-revealing features
SIGIR '02 Proceedings of the 25th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Text Categorization with Suport Vector Machines: Learning with Many Relevant Features
ECML '98 Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Machine Learning
Probabilistic top-down parsing and language modeling
Computational Linguistics
A maximum-entropy-inspired parser
NAACL 2000 Proceedings of the 1st North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics conference
Sentence alignment for monolingual comparable corpora
EMNLP '03 Proceedings of the 2003 conference on Empirical methods in natural language processing
Modeling local coherence: An entity-based approach
Computational Linguistics
A machine learning approach to reading level assessment
Computer Speech and Language
Opportunities for Natural Language Processing Research in Education
CICLing '09 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing
Automatic readability assessment for people with intellectual disabilities
ACM SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing
Developing a Text Support Tool for English Language Learners
Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education: Building Technology Rich Learning Contexts That Work
Matching readers' preferences and reading skills with appropriate web texts
EACL '09 Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Demonstrations Session
EACL '09 Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Cognitively motivated features for readability assessment
EACL '09 Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
EACL '09 Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop
Revisiting readability: a unified framework for predicting text quality
EMNLP '08 Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
The automated text adaptation tool
NAACL-Demonstrations '07 Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Demonstrations
An analysis of statistical models and features for reading difficulty prediction
EANL '08 Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications
Statistical estimation of word acquisition with application to readability prediction
EMNLP '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Volume 2 - Volume 2
EFL learner reading time model for evaluating reading proficiency
CICLing'08 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Computational linguistics and intelligent text processing
Domain-specific iterative readability computation
Proceedings of the 10th annual joint conference on Digital libraries
EUSUM: extracting easy-to-understand english summaries for non-native readers
Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Readability assessment for text simplification
IUNLPBEA '10 Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 Fifth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications
Web page classification on child suitability
CIKM '10 Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Learning to predict readability using diverse linguistic features
COLING '10 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics
A monolingual tree-based translation model for sentence simplification
COLING '10 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics
Empirical methods in natural language generation
A combined topical/non-topical approach to identifying web sites for children
Proceedings of the fourth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
A comparison of features for automatic readability assessment
COLING '10 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Posters
Revisiting the readability assessment of texts in Portuguese
IBERAMIA'10 Proceedings of the 12th Ibero-American conference on Advances in artificial intelligence
Computational Linguistics
A posteriori agreement as a quality measure for readability prediction systems
CICLing'11 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Computational linguistics and intelligent text processing - Volume Part II
Readability annotation: replacing the expert by the crowd
IUNLPBEA '11 Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications
Adaptive ranking of search results by considering user's comprehension
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Uniquitous Information Management and Communication
To each his own: personalized content selection based on text comprehensibility
Proceedings of the fifth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
READ-IT: assessing readability of Italian texts with a view to text simplification
SLPAT '11 Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies
Detection of news feeds items appropriate for children
ECIR'12 Proceedings of the 34th European conference on Advances in Information Retrieval
Supporting the review of student proposal drafts in information technologies
Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Information technology education
Ranking-based readability assessment for early primary children's literature
NAACL HLT '12 Proceedings of the 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
Automatic metrics for genre-specific text quality
NAACL HLT '12 Proceedings of the 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: Student Research Workshop
Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Building Educational Applications Using NLP
Do NLP and machine learning improve traditional readability formulas?
PITR '12 Proceedings of the First Workshop on Predicting and Improving Text Readability for target reader populations
PITR '12 Proceedings of the First Workshop on Predicting and Improving Text Readability for target reader populations
An "AI readability" formula for French as a foreign language
EMNLP-CoNLL '12 Proceedings of the 2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning
WI-IAT '12 Proceedings of the The 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 01
Introduction to the special issue on Resources and Tools for Language Learners
Language Resources and Evaluation
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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. This task can be addressed with natural language processing technology to assess reading level. Existing measures of reading level are not well suited to this task, but previous work and our own pilot experiments have shown the benefit of using statistical language models. In this paper, we also use support vector machines to combine features from traditional reading level measures, statistical language models, and other language processing tools to produce a better method of assessing reading level.