Text readability encompasses two aspects, namely, ease of comprehension and ease of processing (in relation to the effort required for reading comprehension). Researchers at University of Tsukuba analyzed eye-tracking data from Japanese second-language English learners and revealed that text processing ease can be efficiently predicted using only basic factors such as word and sentence length.
English text readability can be estimated using basic linguistic features, study indicates
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