Original scientific paper

Quantitative Assessment of Text Difficulty in Croatian Language

Sanja Brangan ; Škola narodnog zdravlja „Andrija Štampar”, Medicinski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu

Abstract

This paper presents past research in the field of statistical text analysis, with special emphasis on development of readability formulas. Apart from the theoretical part on reading, comprehension, and readability, the paper also presents results of analysis of a corpus of English and Croatian texts. Finally, a readability formula for Croatian language is suggested, as modified from Flesch Reading Ease for English language, which could be used as an objective indicator for a rough assessment of text difficulty in Croatian language.

Keywords

reading; readability; Flesch Reading Ease readability formula; statistical text analysis; corpus linguistics; translational and parallel corpora

Hrčak ID:

128125

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/128125

Publication date:

28.10.2014.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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