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2021 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Semi-automatic Construction of Sight Words Dictionary for Filipino Text Readability

Authors : Joseph Marvin Imperial, Ethel Ong

Published in: Knowledge Management and Acquisition for Intelligent Systems

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Readability formulas consider word familiarity as one of the factors for predicting the readability of children’s books. Word familiarity is dependent on the frequency in which the words are encountered in daily reading. Often referred to as “sight words”, developing effective recognition of these high-frequency words can assist young readers to develop their reading fluency and comprehension. In this paper, we describe our work in building a dictionary of sight words for Filipino with the use of a corpus of Filipino literary materials written for children. We expanded the dictionary to a total of 664 words with the use of pre-trained word embedding model. The availability of such dictionary can facilitate the development of a readability formula for Filipino text, especially in the context of its lexical complexity.

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Metadata
Title
Semi-automatic Construction of Sight Words Dictionary for Filipino Text Readability
Authors
Joseph Marvin Imperial
Ethel Ong
Copyright Year
2021
Book
Knowledge Management and Acquisition for Intelligent Systems

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-69885-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-69886-7

Copyright Year: 2021

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69886-7_14

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