@InProceedings{loukina-EtAl:2016:COLING,
  author    = {Loukina, Anastassia  and  Yoon, Su-Youn  and  Sakano, Jennifer  and  Wei, Youhua  and  Sheehan, Kathy},
  title     = {Textual complexity as a predictor of difficulty of listening items in language proficiency tests},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers},
  month     = {December},
  year      = {2016},
  address   = {Osaka, Japan},
  publisher = {The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee},
  pages     = {3245--3253},
  abstract  = {In this paper we explore to what extent the difficulty of listening items in an
	English language proficiency test can be predicted by the textual properties of
	the prompt. We show that a system based on multiple text complexity features
	can predict item difficulty for several different item types and for some items
	achieves higher accuracy than human estimates of item difficulty.},
  url       = {http://aclweb.org/anthology/C16-1306}
}