Inter-Rater Agreement Study on Readability Assessment in Bengali
Shanta Phani, Shibamouli Lahiri, Arindam Biswas · International Journal on Natural Language Computing · 2014
An inter-rater agreement study is performed for readability assessment in Bengali.A 1-7 rating scale was used to indicate different levels of readability.We obtained moderate to fair agreement among seven independent annotators on 30 text passages written by four eminent Bengali authors.As a by product of our study, we obtained a readability-annotated ground truth dataset in Bengali.