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Most Influential CIKM 2001 Paper · 2026-03 edition

A Statistical Model For Scientific Readability

Luo Si; Jamie Callan

Venue
ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2001
Recognition
Most Influential CIKM 2001 Paper (Rank No. 5)
Edition
2026-03
Impact factor
5
Certificate ID
651494c314d90b33

Abstract

In this paper, we present a new method of using statistical models to estimate readability [1]. Language Model is used to capture the content information. It is combined with linguistic feature model by a linear form. Experiments show that this new method has a better performance than the widely used Flesch-Kincaid readability formula.

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