Readability assessment is the task of evaluating the reading difficulty of a given piece of text. Although research on computational approaches to readability assessment is now two decades old, there is not much work on synthesizing this research. This article is a brief survey of contemporary research on developing computational models for readability assessment. We identify the common approaches, discuss their shortcomings, and identify some challenges for the future. Where possible, we also connect computational research with insights from related work in other disciplines such as education and psychology.
翻译:可读性评估是评价某一文本阅读困难的任务。虽然关于可读性评估的计算方法的研究已经过去20年了,但在综合这一研究方面没有做多少工作。本文章是对当代开发可读性评估的计算模型研究的简要调查。我们确定了共同方法,讨论了它们的缺点,并确定了未来的一些挑战。我们尽可能将计算研究与教育和心理学等其他学科相关工作的深刻见解联系起来。