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Pylinguistics: an open source library for readability assessment of texts written in Portuguese

Author: Castilhos, S.; Woloszyn, V,; Barno, D. ; Wives, L. K.

Abstract: Readability assessment is an important task in automatic text simplification that aims identify the text complexity by computing a set of metrics. In this paper, we present the development and assessment of an open source library called Pylinguistics to readability assessment of texts written in Portuguese. Additionally, to illustrate the possibilities of our tool, this work also presents an empirical analysis of readability of Brazilian scientific news dissemination.

Keywords: text simplification, readability, e-accessibility.

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Complete Reference: Castilhos, S.; Woloszyn, V,; Barno, D. ; Wives, L. K., "Pylinguistics: an open source library for readability assessment of texts written in Portuguese", Revista de Sistemas de Informação da FSMA n 18(2016) pp. 36-42

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