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Measuring readability of technical texts
Kriukova, Anna ; Cinková, Silvie (advisor) ; Vidová Hladká, Barbora (referee)
Title: Measuring readability of technical texts Author: Anna Kriukova Faculty of Mathematics and Physics: Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics Supervisor: Mgr. Cinkov'a Silvie, Ph.D., Institute of Formal and Applied Lin- guistics Abstract: This research explores various approaches to measuring readability of technical texts. The data I work with is provided by Hyperskill, an online educa- tional platform dedicated mostly to Computer Science, where I did my internship. In the first part of my research, I examine classical readability formulas and try to find correlations between their values and the user statistics available for the texts. The results show that there are no high correlations, thus, the standard formulas are not suitable for the task. The second part of the research is dedi- cated to experiments with machine learning algorithms. Firstly, I use four sets of features to predict the average rating, completion time, and completion rate of a step. Then, I introduce a rule-based algorithm to split the texts into well- and poorly-written ones, which relies on students' comments. However, binary classification trained on this division shows low results and is not used in the final pipeline. The system suggested as the outcome of my work employs the user statistics' prediction for new texts and...
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Words that matter. Towards a Swedish-Czech colligational lexicon of basic verbs
Cinková, Silvie ; Petkevič, Vladimír (advisor) ; Malmgren, Sven-Göran (referee) ; Panevová, Jarmila (referee)
Basic verbs, i.e. very common verbs that typically denote physical movements, locations, states or actions, undergo various semantic shifts and acquire different secondary uses. In extreme cases, the distribution of secondary uses grows so general that they are regarded as auxiliary verbs (go and to be going to), phase verbs (turn, grow), etc. ese uses are usually well-documented by grammars and language textbooks, and so are idiomatic expressions (phraseologisms) in dictionaries. ere is, however, a grey area in between, which is extremely difficult to learn for non-native speakers. is consists of secondary uses with limited collocability, in particular light verb constructions, and secondary meanings that only get activated under particular morphosyntactic conditions. e basic-verb secondary uses and constructions are usually semantically transparent, such that they do not pose understanding problems, but they are generally unpredictable and language-specific, such that they easily become an issue in non-native text production. In this thesis, Swedish basic verbs are approached from the contrastive point of view of an advanced Czech learner of Swedish. A selection of Swedish constructions with basic verbs is explored. e observations result in a proposal for the structure of a machine-readable Swedish-Czech...
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Words that matter. Towards a Swedish-Czech colligational lexicon of basic verbs
Cinková, Silvie ; Vachková, Marie (advisor) ; Malmgren, Sven-Göran (referee) ; Panevová, Jarmila (referee)
Basic verbs, i.e. very common verbs that typically denote physical movements, locations, states or actions, undergo various semantic shifts and acquire different secondary uses. In extreme cases, the distribution of secondary uses grows so general that they are regarded as auxiliary verbs (go and to be going to), phase verbs (turn, grow), etc. ese uses are usually well-documented by grammars and language textbooks, and so are idiomatic expressions (phraseologisms) in dictionaries. ere is, however, a grey area in between, which is extremely difficult to learn for non-native speakers. is consists of secondary uses with limited collocability, in particular light verb constructions, and secondary meanings that only get activated under particular morphosyntactic conditions. e basic-verb secondary uses and constructions are usually semantically transparent, such that they do not pose understanding problems, but they are generally unpredictable and language-specific, such that they easily become an issue in non-native text production. In this thesis, Swedish basic verbs are approached from the contrastive point of view of an advanced Czech learner of Swedish. A selection of Swedish constructions with basic verbs is explored. e observations result in a proposal for the structure of a machine-readable Swedish-Czech...
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