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Balyan, Renu; McCarthy, Kathryn S.; McNamara, Danielle S. – International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2020
For decades, educators have relied on readability metrics that tend to oversimplify dimensions of text difficulty. This study examines the potential of applying advanced artificial intelligence methods to the educational problem of assessing text difficulty. The combination of hierarchical machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) is…
Descriptors: Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Man Machine Systems, Classification
Balyan, Renu; McCarthy, Kathryn S.; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2020
For decades, educators have relied on readability metrics that tend to oversimplify dimensions of text difficulty. This study examines the potential of applying advanced artificial intelligence methods to the educational problem of assessing text difficulty. The combination of hierarchical machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) is…
Descriptors: Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Man Machine Systems, Classification
McNamara, Danielle S.; Roscoe, Rod; Allen, Laura; Balyan, Renu; McCarthy, Kathryn S. – Grantee Submission, 2019
Literacy is a critically important and contemporary issue for educators, scientists, and politicians. Efforts to overcome the challenges associated with illiteracy, and the subsequent development of literate societies, are closely related to those of poverty reduction and sustainable human development. In this paper, the authors examine literacy…
Descriptors: Literacy, Reading Comprehension, Language Processing, Discourse Analysis
Balyan, Renu; Crossley, Scott A.; Brown, William, III; Karter, Andrew J.; McNamara, Danielle S.; Liu, Jennifer Y.; Lyles, Courtney R.; Schillinger, Dean – Grantee Submission, 2019
Limited health literacy is a barrier to optimal healthcare delivery and outcomes. Current measures requiring patients to self-report limitations are time-consuming and may be considered intrusive by some. This makes widespread classification of patient health literacy challenging. The objective of this study was to develop and validate…
Descriptors: Patients, Literacy, Health Services, Profiles