The Common Readability Formula & Five Adjusted Readability Formulas for Text Simplification, Medical Documents and Other General Uses

Anonymous

Paper Link: https://openreview.net/forum?id=zq8SarAI9Bg

Paper Type: Long paper (up to eight pages of content + unlimited references and appendices)

Abstract: Traditional readability formulas, or equations, are inaccurate and measure highly limited linguistic properties. Despite the recent machine learning-based readability assessment models, many researchers insist on using the outdated formulas. To replace the linguistically-shallow inaccurate formulas, we: : 1. introduce Common Readability Formula (CoRF), 2. recalibrate outdated formulas (Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level, Fog Index, SMOG Index, Coleman-Liau Index, and Automated Readability Index), 3. evaluate the formulas, and 4. develop a Python library for the wide dispersal of our variations.