When text readability meets automatic text simplification

François, Thomas; Bernhard, Delphine

doi:10.1075/itl.165.2.00int

Article published In:

Recent Advances in Automatic Readability Assessment and Text Simplification
Edited by Thomas François and Delphine Bernhard
[ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 165:2] 2014
► pp. 89–96

When text readability meets automatic text simplification

Thomas François

Delphine Bernhard

Published online: 23 January 2015

https://doi.org/10.1075/itl.165.2.00int

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