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Differnable Readability Measure Regularizer for Neural Network Automatic Text Simplification
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A machine learning approach to reading level assessment #15

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shlomihod commented 6 years ago

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/288f/5d916d90d986b23d06660d89c71adfb1bf92.pdf

shlomihod commented 6 years ago

Data: Improvement with unlabeled negative training data

Corpus: Weekly Reader (2400 articles) Encyclopedia Britannica Britannica Elementary CNN - Western/Pacific Literacy Network

TIPSTER - negative training data (as grade 5+) Kidspot - Washington post - Generalization test

SVM

Lexical, syntax and other traditional features A2.2 Didn't introduce length of the article as a feature.

They've tried regression (and just classification)