Readability Annotation: Replacing the Expert by the Crowd
Philip van Oosten, Véronique Hoste · 2011
This paper investigates two strategies for collecting readability assessments, an Expert Readers application intended to collect fine-grained readability assessments from language experts and a Sort by Readability application designed to be intuitive and open for everyone having internet access. We show that the data sets resulting from both annotation strategies are very similar. We conclude that crowdsourcing is a viable alternative to the opinions of language experts for readability prediction. 1