Text readability analysis with Natural Language Processing Tools: assessment of the “Literatura para Todos” Collection

Authors

  • Erica dos Santos Rodrigues PUC-Rio
  • Cláudia Freitas PUC-Rio
  • Violeta Quental PUC-Rio

Keywords:

Readability, Coleção Literatura para Todos, Readability assessment, Natural language

Abstract

This paper presents results of a research on readability of the Literatura para Todos 1 Collection, published by MEC/SECAD (2006) and distributed to newly literate youth and adults. The investigation of text readability combined assumptions from Psycholinguistics and natural language processing tools. We used readability criteria referred in psycholinguistics literature and tried to evaluate objectively the degree of linguistic complexity of the books by means of computational tools: the morphosyntactic analyzer PALAVRAS and the program Coh-Metrix Port. Our results suggest that these books are complex for the intended audience. Assuming that new readers are in the initial stage of literacy process, it is clear that reading the books of the Collection takes an effort which is beyond their ability.

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Author Biographies

Erica dos Santos Rodrigues, PUC-Rio

Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos da Linguagem; Departamento de Letras; PUC-Rio

Cláudia Freitas, PUC-Rio

Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos da Linguagem; Departamento de Letras; PUC-Rio

Violeta Quental, PUC-Rio

Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras; Departamento de Letras; PUC-Rio

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Published

2013-04-11

How to Cite

Rodrigues, E. dos S., Freitas, C., & Quental, V. (2013). Text readability analysis with Natural Language Processing Tools: assessment of the “Literatura para Todos” Collection. Letras De Hoje, 48(1), 91–99. Retrieved from https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/fale/article/view/12048

Issue

Vol. 48 No. 1 (2013): Research and Teaching of Reading and Writing: Psycholinguistic Studies

Section

Methods of Research in Reading

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