Abstract
Judging the readability of text has many important applications, for instance when performing text simplification or when sourcing reading material for language learners. In this paper, we present a 518 participant study which investigates how scrolling behaviour relates to the readability of English texts. We make our dataset publicly available and show that (1) there are statistically significant differences in the way readers interact with text depending on the text level, (2) such measures can be used to predict the readability of text, and (3) the background of a reader impacts their reading interactions and the factors contributing to text difficulty.- Anthology ID:
- 2021.conll-1.30
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 25th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning
- Month:
- November
- Year:
- 2021
- Address:
- Online
- Venue:
- CoNLL
- SIG:
- SIGNLL
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 380–390
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2021.conll-1.30
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2021.conll-1.30
- Cite (ACL):
- Sian Gooding, Yevgeni Berzak, Tony Mak, and Matt Sharifi. 2021. Predicting Text Readability from Scrolling Interactions. In Proceedings of the 25th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, pages 380–390, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Predicting Text Readability from Scrolling Interactions (Gooding et al., CoNLL 2021)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingestion-script-update/2021.conll-1.30.pdf
- Code
- siangooding/readability_scroll
- Data
- Scroll Readability Dataset, OneStopEnglish, OneStopQA