@inproceedings{lin-2018-syntactic,
    title = "Syntactic and Lexical Approaches to Reading Comprehension",
    author = "Lin, Henry",
    editor = "Tseng, Yuen-Hsien  and
      Chen, Hsin-Hsi  and
      Ng, Vincent  and
      Komachi, Mamoru",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Natural Language Processing Techniques for Educational Applications",
    month = jul,
    year = "2018",
    address = "Melbourne, Australia",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/W18-3702",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W18-3702",
    pages = "11--19",
    abstract = "Among the challenges of teaching reading comprehension in K {--} 12 are identifying the portions of a text that are difficult for a student, comprehending major critical ideas, and understanding context-dependent polysemous words. We present a simple, unsupervised but robust and accurate syntactic method for achieving the first objective and a modified hierarchical lexical method for the second objective. Focusing on pinpointing troublesome sentences instead of the overall readability and on concepts central to a reading, we believe these methods will greatly facilitate efforts to help students improve reading skills",
}