A New Way To Model Readability

What Makes Something Difficult to Read? One of the most complicated (and interesting) challenges in Data Science is getting computers to understand text written by humans. Anyone could tell you that a passage from War and Peace is probably harder for most people to comprehend than a page out of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, but how can we quantify the difference between the two? One of these books is more challenging to read than the other...

August 4, 2021 · 9 min · Scott Richter