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author = "Forti, Luciana and
Grego Bolli, Giuliana and
Santarelli, Filippo and
Santucci, Valentino and
Spina, Stefania",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference",
month = may,
year = "2020",
address = "Marseille, France",
publisher = "European Language Resources Association",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.890",
pages = "7204--7211",
abstract = "This paper presents a new resource for automatically assessing text difficulty in the context of Italian as a second or foreign language learning and teaching. It is called MALT-IT2, and it automatically classifies inputted texts according to the CEFR level they are more likely to belong to. After an introduction to the field of automatic text difficulty assessment, and an overview of previous related work, we describe the rationale of the project, the corpus and computational system it is based on. Experiments were conducted in order to investigate the reliability of the system. The results show that the system is able to obtain a good prediction accuracy, while a further analysis was conducted in order to identify the categories of features which mostly influenced the predictions.",
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%A Santucci, Valentino
%A Spina, Stefania
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Markdown (Informal)
[MALT-IT2: A New Resource to Measure Text Difficulty in Light of CEFR Levels for Italian L2 Learning](https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.890) (Forti et al., LREC 2020)
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