A new measurement method of Chinese texts' difficulty based on the digital analysis of two-character continuations.
A new measurement method of Chinese texts' difficulty based on the digital analysis of two-character continuations is proposed, which is ' i + 1' measurement model of language difficulty. The new method shifts the focus of the measurement of text difficulty from language units and grammatical compl...
| Published in: | Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 38; no. 1; pp. 420 - 434 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Apr2023
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