Les apports du traitement automatique des langues à la lisibilité du français langue étrangère
(2011)
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- (en) This thesis offers a critical analysis of the methodological means to be used to implement a readability formula specific to the context of French as a foreign language (FFL). A readability formula is a tool that allows to assess automatically the reading complexity of a text, using a set of linguistic features such as syntactic complexity, lexical load, etc.. After summarizing the current views on the way a FFL learner understands a text, this study offers a review as complete as possible of the readability studies in French, but also English. This state-of-the-art is followed by an inventory of the linguistic features that may generate reading difficulties. These are mainly from the literature, but several of them are new, inspired by recent work in cognitive psychology of reading. In a second step, based on these methodological considerations and a corpus of texts taken from FFL textbooks, the ability of these linguistic features to adequately predict the difficulty of texts for FFL is evaluated using 406 variables. This work ends with the development of a new readability formula for FFL, that uses technologies from natural language processing.
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François, T. (2011). Les apports du traitement automatique des langues à la lisibilité du français langue étrangère. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/52179