Readability and the Web

Readability indices measure how easy or difficult it is to read and comprehend a text. In this paper we look at the relation between readability indices and web documents from two different perspectives. On the one hand we analyse how to reliably measure the readability of web documents by applying...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:	Future Internet
Main Authors:	Thomas Gottron, Ludger Martin
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2012-03-01
Subjects:	web document readability content extraction corpus statistics
Online Access:	http://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/4/1/238/

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