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Visual readability analysis: how to make your writings easier to read.

Daniela Oelke1, David Spretke, Andreas Stoffel

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This study introduces VisRA, a tool aiding writers in document revision by identifying difficult text segments and explaining why. It uses selected readability features to enhance writing clarity and user understanding.

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Area of Science:

  • Natural Language Processing
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Information Visualization

Background:

  • Effective document revision is crucial for clear communication.
  • Existing readability tools often lack transparency in their feature selection and explanations.
  • Writers need tools that not only identify readability issues but also explain the underlying reasons.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and present VisRA, a visual analysis tool for document revision.
  • To provide writers with semantically understandable predictors of readability.
  • To enhance the transparency of readability assessment for targeted text improvement.

Main Methods:

  • A semiautomatic feature selection approach was used to identify relevant readability measures from 141 candidates.
  • The VisRA tool was developed for analyzing feature values across texts and within sentences.
  • Multiple visual representations were implemented to accommodate different document sizes and layout information.

Main Results:

  • The study successfully selected expressive and semantically understandable readability features.
  • VisRA enables users to analyze readability at various granularities with transparent explanations.
  • Case studies demonstrated the tool's wide applicability in document revision.
  • An evaluation confirmed the quality of the selected measures and user effectiveness with the tool.

Conclusions:

  • VisRA offers a transparent and effective approach to readability analysis and document revision.
  • The tool empowers writers to purposefully improve text clarity by understanding readability feature impacts.
  • The selected features and visualization techniques provide valuable insights for enhancing writing quality.