Flesch and Dale-Chall Readability Measures for INEX 2011 Question-Answering Track

摘要

For INEX 2011 QA track, we wanted to measure the impact of two generic measures of readability in the selection of sentences related to topics. This is a step towards adaptive information retrieval approaches that take into account the reading skills of users and their level of expertise. We show that Flesch and Dale-Chall measures do not allow to filter sentences for obtaining a satisfactory readability level for INEX QA 2011 track and that the corresponding scores are not correlated to human assessment.