Future Internet 2012, 4(1), 238-252; doi:10.3390/fi4010238
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Readability and the Web

Ludger Martin 1,* email and Thomas Gottron 2 email
1 Institute of Computer Science, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz 55128, Germany 2 Institute for Web Science and Technologies, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz 56070, Germany
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Received: 20 December 2011; in revised form: 7 February 2012 / Accepted: 5 March 2012 / Published: 12 March 2012
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from ITA 11)
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Abstract: Readability indices measure how easy or difficult it is to read and comprehend a text. In this paper we look at the relation between readability indices and web documents from two different perspectives. On the one hand we analyse how to reliably measure the readability of web documents by applying content extraction techniques and incorporating a bias correction. On the other hand we investigate how web based corpus statistics can be used to measure readability in a novel and language independent way.
Keywords: web document readability; content extraction; corpus statistics

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