Assessing the Readability of Literary Texts in Vietnamese Textbooks

Luong, An-Vinh; Nguyen, Diep; Đinh, Điền

doi:10.1109/nics.2018.8606848

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“…Although the method has proven its efficiency for not requiring any experts, the number of collected texts is limited, and the copyright must also be taken into consideration. This method has been implemented in various works, including but not limited to Sun et al [10], Dell'Orletta et al [6], Chen & Daowadung [7], Lee & Hasebe [22], Berendes et al [23], Luong et al [10,12], Diep et al [13] etc.…”

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“…We also conducted an experiment on assessing the readability of the texts of the built corpus using the method of Luong et al [12]: classify texts using the features of Number of sentences, Number of characters, Average word length calculated in syllables, Percentage of difficult words, Percentage of difficult syllables, Percentage of Sino-Vietnamese words and Percentage of unique Sino-Vietnamese words. The method used is also SVM and K-folds cross validation (we chose K=5).…”

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“…Furthermore, 30 other passages were additionally used to evaluate this formula [9]. In the recent studies on Vietnamese text readability, Luong et al [10,12,11], Diep et al [13] examined around 380 texts collected from school textbooks to examine the effect of the text length and some specific Vietnamese language features on the text readability. In recent years, along with the process of the education reforms, the issue of assessing the readability of the text has received more attention.…”

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Building a Corpus for Vietnamese Text Readability Assessment in The Literature Domain

Luong¹,

Nguyen²,

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2020

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Text readability is a measure of how easy or difficult it is to read a text. This readability factor plays a crucial role in the processes of drafting and comprehending the texts, affecting the choice of proper texts for reading. Studies on the readability of text have started since the late nineteenth century and there have been many practical applications. However, these studies are mainly performed in English and other popular languages. In Vietnamese, the study of the text readability is still relatively untapped and has only received attention in recent years in the process of improving the curriculum and teaching methods. Recent studies on the readability of text in Vietnamese language are still limited, the main reason was largely due to the lack of text resources, which are corpora graded accordingly to difficulty levels. Therefore, in this study, we focused on building a corpus for assessing the readability of Vietnamese texts in the literature domain through the process of collecting, processing and evaluating documents. The result is that we have built up a corpus of 1,825 Vietnamese texts, divided into four levels of difficulty (Very easy, Easy, Medium and Difficult). Experiments with the existing Vietnamese readability assessment methods show that the built corpus is reliable and usable for further research on the text readability.

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Building a Corpus for Vietnamese Text Readability Assessment in The Literature Domain

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2020

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“…Some of the notable studies on this approach are Dell'Orletta, et al [20], De Clercq, et al [21], and Berendes, et al [22], etc. In Vietnamese, studies based on this approach have only been carried out in recent years like those of Luong, et al [12], Luong, et al [13]. Table I presents a summary of some influential studies on text readability from both approaches in recent years along with information about the dataset and features examined for a range of languages, including Vietnamese.…”

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“…Then, in 2017, when examining the features of text in linguistic textbooks, Luong, et al [12] showed that the text length significantly influences the classification of these grammatical texts by readability level. In another study in 2018, Luong, et al [13] further argued that Sino-Vietnamese elements and dialect features also plays a critical role in evaluating the readability of texts in Vietnamese textbooks.…”

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Assessing Vietnamese Text Readability using Multi-Level Linguistic Features

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Nguyen²,

Đinh³

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Text readability is the problem of determining whether a text is suitable for a certain group of readers, and thus building a model to assess the readability of text yields great significance across the disciplines of science, publishing, and education. While text readability has attracted attention since the late nineteenth century for English and other popular languages, it remains relatively underexplored in Vietnamese. Previous studies on this topic in Vietnamese have only focused on the examination of shallow word-level features using surface statistics such as frequency and ratio. Hence, features at higher levels like sentence structure and meaning are still untapped. In this study, we propose the most comprehensive analysis of Vietnamese text readability to date, targeting features at all linguistic levels, ranging from the lexical and phrasal elements to syntactic and semantic factors. This work pioneers the investigation on the effects of multi-level linguistic features on text readability in the Vietnamese language.

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Semi-Automatic Construction of a Readability Corpus for the Vietnamese Language

Luong

Đinh

2022

Vietnam J. Comp. Sci.

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Text readability is a measure of how easy or difficult it is to read a text. This readability factor plays a crucial role in the processes of drafting and comprehending the texts, affecting the choice of proper texts for reading. While text readability has been a focus in research on computational linguistics for English and other resource-rich languages, there is still little work on this subject in understudied languages like Vietnamese. In this study, we propose a semi-automated method to build a corpus for text readability purposes for the Vietnamese language. This method performs the classification of new documents based on comparing the correlation readability with the documents that have been manually pre-assessed by language experts. The evaluation results of experts show that the classification accuracy of documents in the corpus is over 90%. The experimental results on other available corpus also show that our proposed method can not only address the lack of corpora that are graded on various difficulty levels in Vietnamese, but it can also be extended to the analysis of other resource-poor languages without requiring major adjustments.

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Assessing the Readability of Literary Texts in Vietnamese Textbooks

Cited by 5 publications

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Building a Corpus for Vietnamese Text Readability Assessment in The Literature Domain

Building a Corpus for Vietnamese Text Readability Assessment in The Literature Domain

Assessing Vietnamese Text Readability using Multi-Level Linguistic Features

Semi-Automatic Construction of a Readability Corpus for the Vietnamese Language

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