OneStopEnglish corpus: A new corpus for automatic readability assessment and text simplification

Sowmya Vajjala, Ivana Lucic
2018 Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications  
This paper describes the collection and compilation of the OneStopEnglish corpus of texts written at three reading levels, and demonstrates its usefulness for through two applications -automatic readability assessment and automatic text simplification. The corpus consists of 189 texts, each in three versions (567 in total). The corpus is now freely available under a CC by-SA 4.0 license 1 and we hope that it would foster further research on the topics of readability assessment and text simplification.
doi:10.18653/v1/w18-0535 dblp:conf/bea/VajjalaL18 fatcat:ltsm65cu4jbczlur7latm5tuvy