Continuous fluency tracking and the challenges of varying text complexity
Abstract
This paper is a preliminary report on using text complexity measurement in the service of a new educational application. We describe a reading intervention where a child takes turns reading a book aloud with a virtual reading partner. Our ultimate goal is to provide meaningful feedback to the parent or the teacher by continuously tracking the child's improvement in reading fluency. We show that this would not be a simple endeavor, due to an intricate relationship between text complexity from the point of view of comprehension and reading rate.
Publication Title
Emnlp 2017 12th Workshop on Innovative Use of Nlp for Building Educational Applications Bea 2017 Proceedings of the Workshop
Recommended Citation
Klebanov, B., Loukina, A., Sabatini, J., & O'Reilly, T. (2017). Continuous fluency tracking and the challenges of varying text complexity. Emnlp 2017 12th Workshop on Innovative Use of Nlp for Building Educational Applications Bea 2017 Proceedings of the Workshop, 22-32. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/w17-5003
