Beyond Readability with RateMyPDF
Quinten Steenhuis, Bryce Willey, David Colarusso · 2023
In this paper, we describe RateMyPDF, a web application that helps authors measure and improve the usability of court forms. It offers a score together with automated suggestions to improve the form drawn from both traditional machine learning approaches and the general purpose GPT-3 large language model. We worked with form authors and usability experts to determine the set of features we measure and validated them by gathering a dataset of approximately 24,000 PDF forms from 46 U.S. States and the District of Columbia. Our tool and automated measures allow a form author or court tasked with improving a large library of forms to work at scale.