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Sofie Beier, Sam Berlow, Esat Boucaud, Zoya Bylinskii + 24 more
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Adem Gencer
For common diseases such as lung cancer, patients often use the internet to obtain medical information. As a result of advances in artificial intelligence and large language models such as ChatGPT, patients and health professionals use these tools to obtain medical information. The aim of this study was to evaluate the…
Scott Crossley, Aron Heintz, Joon Suh Choi, Jordan Batchelor + 2 more
This paper introduces the CommonLit Ease of Readability (CLEAR) corpus, which provides unique readability scores for ~ 5000 text excerpts along with information about the excerpt’s year of publishing, genre, and other metadata. The CLEAR corpus will provide researchers interested in discourse processing and reading…
Pontus Plavén-Sigray, Granville James Matheson, Björn Christian Schiffler, William Hedley Thompson
Clarity and accuracy of reporting are fundamental to the scientific process. The understandability of written language can be estimated using readability formulae. Here, in a corpus consisting of 707 452 scientific abstracts published between 1881 and 2015 from 122 influential biomedical journals, we show that the…
Catarina G Belem, Parker Glenn, Alfy Samuel, Anoop Kumar + 1 more
Automatic readability assessment plays a key role in ensuring effective and accessible written communication. Despite significant progress, the field is hindered by inconsistent definitions of readability and measurements that rely on surface-level text properties. In this work, we investigate the factors shaping human…
Sian Gooding, Yevgeni Berzak, Tony Wing-Lai Mak, Matt Sharifi
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…
Bruce W. Lee, Jason Hyung-Jong Lee
Traditional English readability formulas, or equations, were largely developed in the 20th century. Nonetheless, many researchers still rely on them for various NLP applications. This phenomenon is presumably due to the convenience and straightforwardness of readability formulas. In this work, we contribute to the NLP…
Susmoy Chakraborty, Mir Tafseer Nayeem, Wasi Uddin Ahmad
Determining the readability of a text is the first step to its simplification. In this paper, we present a readability analysis tool capable of analyzing text written in the Bengali language to provide in-depth information on its readability and complexity. Despite being the 7 th most spoken language in the world with…
Víctor Checa-Moreno, Esther Díaz-Mohedo, Carmen Suárez-Serrano, Lucia Manganaro + 1 more
'Lucia Manganaro' 'Agnieszka Drosdzol-Cop'] Questionnaires are tools of interest in the evaluation of pelvic floor dysfunctions, but their success depends on their readability. Evaluating symptoms associated with such dysfunctions through questionnaires validated in Spanish with adequate readability indices will be…
Betül Ay, İbrahim Rıza Hallaç, Galip Aydın
The readability assessment deals with estimating the level of difficulty in reading texts.Many readability tests, which do not indicate execution efficiency, have been applied on specific texts to measure the reading grade level in science textbooks. In this paper, we analyze the content covered in elementary school…
Lihua Jian, Huiqun Xiang, Guobin Le
Text readability is very important in meeting people's information needs. With the explosive growth of modern information, the measurement demand of text readability is increasing. In view of the text structure of words, sentences, and texts, a hybrid network model based on convolutional neural network is proposed to…
Gleice Carvalho de Lima Moreno, Marco P. M. de Souza, Nelson Hein, Adriana Kroenke
'Adriana Kroenke'] I n the initial stage of human life, communication, seen as a process of social interaction, was always the best way to reach consensus between the parties. Understanding and credibility in this process are essential for the mutual agreement to be validated. But, how to do it so that this…
Afendi Hamat, Azhar Jaludin, Tuti Ningseh Mohd-Dom, Haslina Rani + 3 more
This paper describes a study to evaluate the readability scores of Malaysian newspaper articles meant to create awareness of diabetes among the public. In contrast to patient-specific sources of information, mass media may potentially reach healthy people, thus preventing them from becoming part of the diabetes…
Susanne Georgsson, Tommy Carlsson
Background High-quality information is essential if clients who request an abortion are to reach informed decisions and feel prepared for the procedure, but little is known concerning the readability of web-based sources containing such material. The aim was to investigate the readability of web-based information about…
Anne Moorhead, Katri Hameen-Anttila, Nicola Diviani, María Ángeles Piñero-López + 3 more
'María Ángeles Piñero-López' 'Pilar Modamio' 'Cecilia F Lastra' 'Eduardo L Mariño'] Background The package leaflet included in the packaging of all medicinal products plays an important role in the transmission of medicine-related information to patients. Therefore, in 2009, the European Commission published…
Jason D. Yeatman, Kenny An Tang, Patrick M. Donnelly, Maya Yablonski + 6 more
An accurate model of the factors that contribute to individual differences in reading ability depends on data collection in large, diverse and representative samples of research participants. However, that is rarely feasible due to the constraints imposed by standardized measures of reading ability which require test…
Léon Franzen, Marios G. Philiastides
Good reading comprehension is indispensable in many situations including contract-based transactions that have become so prevalent in our everyday lives. People with dyslexia often exhibit impairments in this important cognitive process. Although the effects of italics – a commonly used style for highlighting important…
Karen Froud, Lisa Levinson, Chaille Maddox, Paul Smith
We report the first use of ERP measures to identify text engagement differences when reading digitally or in print. Depth of semantic encoding is key for reading comprehension, and we predicted that deeper reading of expository texts would facilitate stronger associations with subsequently-presented related words…
Marissa M. Lee, Catherine J. Stoodley
Reading fluency, the ability to read quickly and accurately, is a critical marker of successful reading and is notoriously difficult to improve in reading disabled populations. Despite its importance to functional literacy, fluency is a relatively under-studied aspect of reading, and the neural correlates of reading…
Mabel Urrutia, Esteban J. Pino, María Troncoso-Seguel, Claudio Bustos + 5 more
Inferences are an indicator of a greater reading comprehension, as they imply a combination of implicit and explicit information that usually combines a textual representation with background knowledge of the reader. The aim of this study is to explore the costs and benefits of the time course of inferences in…
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A Python script for the systematic, high-throughput analysis of accurate mass data was developed and tested on over 3,000 Supporting Information (SI) PDFs from Organic Letters. For each SI file, quadruplets of molecular formula, measured ion, e.g. [M+Na]+, reported calculated and found masses were extracted and…
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Mass spectrometry (MS) generates large datasets that are stored in increasingly optimized and complex file types, demanding technical expertise to extract information rapidly and easily. We wondered whether a simple structured query language (SQL) database could hold raw MS data and allow for easily readable queries…