Glossary

Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.

7 results found in Automatic Text Simplification.

Automatic Readability Assessment (Readability Prediction, Reading Level Assessment)
The computational task of predicting how difficult a text is for a reader, usually expressed as a grade level or a readability score. Modern systems treat readability as a machine-learning classificat…
Fluency (Text fluency, Grammatical fluency)
In natural language processing and text simplification, fluency is the degree to which a piece of text is grammatically correct and reads naturally in the target language. It is one of three standard …
Grammaticality (Grammatical correctness, Grammatical acceptability)
The degree to which a sentence conforms to the grammatical rules of a language. In accessibility and NLP research, grammaticality is typically assessed via a 5-point Likert subjective judgement (e.g.,…
Newsela
An educational content platform that publishes news articles in multiple professionally-edited versions simplified to different U.S. school reading levels, enabling teachers to assign the same story a…
On-Demand Simplification (On-demand text simplification, User-initiated simplification)
An interaction pattern for Automatic Text Simplification reading-assistance tools in which the user explicitly requests a simpler version of a word, phrase, or sentence — typically via hover, click, o…
SARI (System output Against References and against the Input sentence)
An automatic evaluation metric for text simplification systems that compares a system’s output against both the original input sentence and a set of human-written simplification references, rewarding …
Text Complexity (Linguistic complexity, Text difficulty)
The degree to which a piece of writing demands advanced reading skills to comprehend, driven by factors such as vocabulary frequency, syntactic structure, sentence length, passage organisation, and ba…