Improving readability through extractive summarization for learners with reading difficulties

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dc.contributor.authorNandhini, K
dc.contributor.authorBalasundaram, S.R
dc.date.accessioned2026-11-06T11:29:12Z
dc.date.available2026-11-06T11:29:12Z
dc.date.issued2013-10-19
dc.description.abstractIn this paper, we describe the design and evaluation of extractive summarization approach to assist the learners with reading difficulties. As existing summarization approaches inherently assign more weights to the important sentences, our approach predicts the summary sentences that are important as well as readable to the target audience with good accuracy. We used supervised machine learning technique for summary extraction of science and social subjects in the educational text. Various independent features from the existing literature for predicting important sentences and proposed learner dependent features for predicting readable sentences are extracted from texts and are used for automatic classification. We performed both extrinsic and intrinsic evaluation on this approach and the intrinsic evaluation is carried out using F-measure and readability analysis. The extrinsic evaluation comprises of learner feedback using likert scale and the effect of assistive summary on improving readability for learners' with reading difficulty using ANOVA. The results show significant improvement in readability for the target audience using assistive summary.
dc.identifier.issn11108665
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eij.2013.09.001
dc.identifier.urihttp://nitt.ndl.gov.in/handle/123456789/418
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherElsevier B.V.
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEgyptian Informatics Journal; Vol. 14/ No. 3
dc.titleImproving readability through extractive summarization for learners with reading difficulties
dc.typeArticle
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