@inproceedings{falkenjack-jonsson-2016-implicit,
title = "Implicit readability ranking using the latent variable of a {B}ayesian Probit model",
author = {Falkenjack, Johan and
J{\"o}nsson, Arne},
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/jlcl-multiple-ingestion/W16-4112/",
pages = "104--112",
abstract = "Data driven approaches to readability analysis for languages other than English has been plagued by a scarcity of suitable corpora. Often, relevant corpora consist only of easy-to-read texts with no rank information or empirical readability scores, making only binary approaches, such as classification, applicable. We propose a Bayesian, latent variable, approach to get the most out of these kinds of corpora. In this paper we present results on using such a model for readability ranking. The model is evaluated on a preliminary corpus of ranked student texts with encouraging results. We also assess the model by showing that it performs readability classification on par with a state of the art classifier while at the same being transparent enough to allow more sophisticated interpretations."
}
Markdown (Informal)
[Implicit readability ranking using the latent variable of a Bayesian Probit model](https://preview.aclanthology.org/jlcl-multiple-ingestion/W16-4112/) (Falkenjack & Jönsson, CL4LC 2016)
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