What is it about?
We measure relatedness between words by counting word-co-occurrence in very large collections of text. Then, mathematical measures of relatedness are used to predict the complexity of any new text.
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Why is it important?
It is a useful approach that supplements traditional readability formulas and helps predict complexity of texts for teachers, parents and students.
Perspectives
This approach is now implemented in a larger system (TextEvaluator) at the Educational Testing Service, to measure complexity of reading passages.
Michael Flor
Educational Testing Service
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This page is a summary of: Associative lexical cohesion as a factor in text complexity, ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics, December 2014, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/itl.165.2.05flo.
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