@inproceedings{marcus-etal-2016-cocogen,
    title = "{C}o{C}o{G}en - Complexity Contour Generator: Automatic Assessment of Linguistic Complexity Using a Sliding-Window Technique",
    author = {Marcus, Str{\"o}bel  and
      Kerz, Elma  and
      Wiechmann, Daniel  and
      Neumann, Stella},
    editor = "Brunato, Dominique  and
      Dell{'}Orletta, Felice  and
      Venturi, Giulia  and
      Fran{\c{c}}ois, Thomas  and
      Blache, Philippe",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Linguistic Complexity ({CL}4{LC})",
    month = dec,
    year = "2016",
    address = "Osaka, Japan",
    publisher = "The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/W16-4103/",
    pages = "23--31",
    abstract = "We present a novel approach to the automatic assessment of text complexity based on a sliding-window technique that tracks the distribution of complexity within a text. Such distribution is captured by what we term ``complexity contours'' derived from a series of measurements for a given linguistic complexity measure. This approach is implemented in an automatic computational tool, CoCoGen {--} Complexity Contour Generator, which in its current version supports 32 indices of linguistic complexity. The goal of the paper is twofold: (1) to introduce the design of our computational tool based on a sliding-window technique and (2) to showcase this approach in the area of second language (L2) learning, i.e. more specifically, in the area of L2 writing."
}