Abstract
Classic children’s literature such as Alice in Wonderland is nowadays freely available thanks to initiatives such as Project Gutenberg. Due to diverging vocabularies and style, these texts are often not readily understandable to children in the present day. Our goal is to make such texts more accessible by aiding children in the reading process, in particular by automatically identifying the terms that result in low readability. As a first step, in this poster we report on a preliminary user study that investigates the extent of the vocabulary problem. We also propose and evaluate a basic approach to detect such difficult terminology.
| Original language | Undefined |
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| Title of host publication | Advances in Information Retrieval - 33rd European Conference on IR Research (ECIR 2011) |
| Editors | Paul Clough, Colum Foley, Cathal Gurrin, Gareth J.F. Jones, Wessel Kraaij, Hyowon Lee, Vanessa Murdock |
| Place of Publication | London |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Pages | 691-694 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-3-642-20160-8 |
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| Publication status | Published - Apr 2011 |
| Event | 33rd European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2011: (IR Resarch) - Dublin, Ireland Duration: 18 Apr 2011 → 21 Apr 2011 Conference number: 33 |
Publication series
| Name | Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
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| Publisher | Springer Verlag |
| Volume | 6611 |
| ISSN (Print) | 0302-9743 |
| ISSN (Electronic) | 1611-3349 |
Conference
| Conference | 33rd European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2011 |
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| Abbreviated title | ECIR |
| Country/Territory | Ireland |
| City | Dublin |
| Period | 18/04/11 → 21/04/11 |
Keywords
- METIS-287856
- EWI-21475
- IR-79621