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<DIV>Adding to Ramesh's links and Trevor's, you might also try: <A href="http://www.usingenglish.com/resources/text-statistics.php">http://www.usingenglish.com/resources/text-statistics.php</A> It returns various readability indices (though based mainly on the American education system). This would give you a surface account, but it does not take into account the context and other variables necessary to understand a passage.</DIV>
<DIV>Best,</DIV>
<DIV>Linda Bawcom<BR></DIV>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> "Krishnamurthy, Ramesh" <r.krishnamurthy@aston.ac.uk><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> "goser_elgoseriano26@hotmail.com" <goser_elgoseriano26@hotmail.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Cc:</SPAN></B> "corpora@uib.no" <corpora@uib.no><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Mon, May 7, 2012 2:48:09 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [Corpora-List] Reading Comprehension<BR></FONT><BR>
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<P class=MsoNormal>Dear Pablo</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>You may find something useful at</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>#1 Compleat Lexical Tutor (I know they have a readability/difficulty measuring tool)</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>http://www.lextutor.ca/</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>#2 the VLC Web Concordancer at</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>http://vlc.polyu.edu.hk/concordance/</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>#3 David Lee’s website at</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>http://www.uow.edu.au/~dlee/CBLLinks.htm</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>#4 the archives of corpora-list at</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>http://www.hit.uib.no/corpora/</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal>best wishes</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Ramesh</P>
<P class=MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Ramesh Krishnamurthy</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Visiting Academic Fellow, School of Languages and Social Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET</P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText>Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 16:26:05 +0200</P>
<P class=MsoPlainText>From: Mario Crespo de Miguel <<A href="mailto:goser_elgoseriano26@hotmail.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:goser_elgoseriano26@hotmail.com">goser_elgoseriano26@hotmail.com</A>></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText>Subject: [Corpora-List] Reading Comprehension</P>
<P class=MsoPlainText>To: <<A href="mailto:corpora@uib.no" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:corpora@uib.no">corpora@uib.no</A>></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText>Dear all, </P>
<P class=MsoPlainText>I wonder if someone of you knows tools in the field of Natural Language Processing and</P>
<P class=MsoPlainText>Language Technology that could be easily applied to the field of reading comprehension</P>
<P class=MsoPlainText>(teaching, evaluation, researching, improvement, etc.)</P>
<P class=MsoPlainText>Thank you very much in advance,</P>
<P class=MsoPlainText>Pablo Suarez</P>
<P class=MsoPlainText>Phd. Student</P>
<P class=MsoPlainText>University</P>
<P class=MsoPlainText>of Cádiz, Spain.</P>
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