@InProceedings{lin:2018:NLPTEA,
  author    = {Lin, Henry},
  title     = {Syntactic and Lexical Approaches to Reading Comprehension},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Natural Language Processing Techniques for Educational Applications},
  month     = {July},
  year      = {2018},
  address   = {Melbourne, Australia},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {11--19},
  abstract  = {Among the challenges of teaching reading comprehension in K -- 12 are identifying the portions of a text that are difficult for a student, comprehending major critical ideas, and understanding context-dependent polysemous words. We present a simple, unsupervised but robust and accurate syntactic method for achieving the first objective and a modified hierarchical lexical method for the second objective. Focusing on pinpointing troublesome sentences instead of the overall readability and on concepts central to a reading, we believe these methods will greatly facilitate efforts to help students improve reading skills},
  url       = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W18-3702}
}