NILC-Metrix: assessing the complexity of written and spoken language in Brazilian Portuguese

no code implementations • 17 Dec 2021 • Sidney Evaldo Leal, Magali Sanches Duran, Carolina Evaristo Scarton, Nathan Siegle Hartmann, Sandra Maria Aluísio

This paper presents and makes publicly available the NILC-Metrix, a computational system comprising 200 metrics proposed in studies on discourse, psycholinguistics, cognitive and computational linguistics, to assess textual complexity in Brazilian Portuguese (BP).

Descriptive

Using Eye-tracking Data to Predict the Readability of Brazilian Portuguese Sentences in Single-task, Multi-task and Sequential Transfer Learning Approaches

no code implementations • COLING 2020 • Sidney Evaldo Leal, Jo{\~a}o Marcos Munguba Vieira, Erica dos Santos Rodrigues, Elis{\^a}ngela Nogueira Teixeira, Sandra Alu{\'\i}sio

Sentence complexity assessment is a relatively new task in Natural Language Processing.

Multi-Task Learning Sentence

A Nontrivial Sentence Corpus for the Task of Sentence Readability Assessment in Portuguese

no code implementations • COLING 2018 • Sidney Evaldo Leal, Magali Sanches Duran, S Alu{\'\i}sio, ra Maria

Effective textual communication depends on readers being proficient enough to comprehend texts, and texts being clear enough to be understood by the intended audience, in a reading task.

Sentence