English text readability can be estimated using basic linguistic features, study indicates
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Text readability encompasses two aspects, namely, ease of comprehension and ease of processing (in relation to the effort required for reading comprehension). Researchers at University of Tsukuba analyzed eye-tracking data from Japanese second-language English learners and revealed that text processing ease can be efficiently predicted using only basic factors such as word and sentence length.