Readability Assessment of Translated Texts
Alina Maria Ciobanu, Liviu P. Dinu, Flaviu Ioan Pepelea · Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing · 2015
In this paper we investigate how readability varies between texts originally written in English and texts translated into English. For quantification, we analyze several factors that are relevant in assessing readability ‐ shallow, lexical and morpho-syntactic features ‐ and we employ the widely used Flesch-Kincaid formula to measure the variation of the readability level between original English texts and texts translated into English. Finally, we analyze whether the readability features have enough discriminative power to distinguish between originals and translations.