Michael Flor
List of John Benjamins publications for which Michael Flor plays a role.
Articles
2024 Mapping of American English vocabulary by grade levels Graded Resources for Second and Foreign Language Learning, Alfter, David and Thomas François (eds.), pp. 25–45 | Article
We describe a large-scale effort to map English-language vocabulary by U.S. school grade levels. Our motivation is to rapidly expand graded vocabulary resources for work with native English speakers in the USA, while taking into consideration school-related influences rather than relying on just… read more
2014 Associative lexical cohesion as a factor in text complexity Recent Advances in Automatic Readability Assessment and Text Simplification, François, Thomas and Delphine Bernhard (eds.), pp. 223–258 | Article
In this paper we present an application of associative lexical cohesion to the analysis of text complexity as determined by expert-assigned US school grade levels. Lexical cohesion in a text is represented as a distribution of pairwise positive normalized mutual information values. Our… read more