@InProceedings{marcus-EtAl:2016:CL4LC,
  author    = {Marcus, Str\"{o}bel  and  Kerz, Elma  and  Wiechmann, Daniel  and  Neumann, Stella},
  title     = {CoCoGen - Complexity Contour Generator: Automatic Assessment of Linguistic Complexity Using a Sliding-Window Technique},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Linguistic Complexity (CL4LC)},
  month     = {December},
  year      = {2016},
  address   = {Osaka, Japan},
  publisher = {The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee},
  pages     = {23--31},
  abstract  = {We present a novel approach to the automatic assessment of text complexity
	based on a sliding-window technique that tracks the distribution of complexity
	within a text. Such distribution is captured by what we term “complexity
	contours” derived from a series of measurements for a given linguistic
	complexity measure. This approach is implemented in an automatic computational
	tool, CoCoGen -- Complexity Contour Generator, which in its current version
	supports 32 indices of linguistic complexity. The goal of the paper is twofold:
	(1) to introduce the design of our computational tool based on a sliding-window
	technique and (2) to showcase this approach in the area of second language (L2)
	learning, i.e. more specifically, in the area of L2 writing.},
  url       = {http://aclweb.org/anthology/W16-4103}
}