Trends, Limitations and Open Challenges in Automatic Readability Assessment Research
Sowmya Vajjala · 2022
Readability assessment is the task of evaluating the reading difficulty of a given piece of text.This article takes a closer look at contemporary NLP research on developing computational models for readability assessment, identifying the common approaches used for this task, their shortcomings, and some challenges for the future.Where possible, the survey also connects computational research with insights from related work in other disciplines such as education and psychology.