@inproceedings{chitez-etal-2024-towards,
    title = "Towards Building the {LEMI} Readability Platform for Children{'}s Literature in the {R}omanian Language",
    author = {Chitez, Madalina  and
      Dascalu, Mihai  and
      Udrea, Aura Cristina  and
      Strile{\textcommabelow{t}}chi, Cosmin  and
      Cs{\"u}r{\"o}s, Karla  and
      Rogobete, Roxana  and
      Oravi{\textcommabelow{t}}an, Alexandru},
    editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta  and
      Kan, Min-Yen  and
      Hoste, Veronique  and
      Lenci, Alessandro  and
      Sakti, Sakriani  and
      Xue, Nianwen",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)",
    month = may,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Torino, Italia",
    publisher = "ELRA and ICCL",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.1429",
    pages = "16450--16456",
    abstract = "Readability is a crucial characteristic of texts, greatly influencing comprehension and reading efficacy. Unfortunately, limited research is available for less-resourced languages, especially for young populations where its impact is even higher. This paper introduces a new readability tool for children{'}s literature in the Romanian language, explicitly targeting primary school students aged 7-11. The tool consists of a digital repository of school reading texts (self-compiled corpus) and a text analysis interface that generates automatic readability reports for uploaded short texts. The methodology involves extracting, testing, and calibrating a readability formula for Romanian using the children{'}s literature corpus. Related work on readability and readability tools is discussed, followed by a description of the children{'}s literature corpus and the platform functionalities. The first steps are presented towards validating the readability formula for children{'}s literature in Romanian using the ReaderBench framework, while calibration variables relevant to the Romanian language and children{'}s literature are examined. Currently, no existing platform integrates a research-based readability formula for the Romanian language, making this tool unique. Overall, this research contributes to applied corpus linguistics and Digital Humanities studies and offers a valuable resource for educators, parents, and children in accessing age-appropriate and readable texts.",
}

Readability is a crucial characteristic of texts, greatly influencing comprehension and reading efficacy. Unfortunately, limited research is available for less-resourced languages, especially for young populations where its impact is even higher. This paper introduces a new readability tool for children{'}s literature in the Romanian language, explicitly targeting primary school students aged 7-11. The tool consists of a digital repository of school reading texts (self-compiled corpus) and a text analysis interface that generates automatic readability reports for uploaded short texts. The methodology involves extracting, testing, and calibrating a readability formula for Romanian using the children{'}s literature corpus. Related work on readability and readability tools is discussed, followed by a description of the children{'}s literature corpus and the platform functionalities. The first steps are presented towards validating the readability formula for children{'}s literature in Romanian using the ReaderBench framework, while calibration variables relevant to the Romanian language and children{'}s literature are examined. Currently, no existing platform integrates a research-based readability formula for the Romanian language, making this tool unique. Overall, this research contributes to applied corpus linguistics and Digital Humanities studies and offers a valuable resource for educators, parents, and children in accessing age-appropriate and readable texts.
Chitez, Madalina Dascalu, Mihai Udrea, Aura Cristina Strile{\textcommabelow{t}}chi, Cosmin Cs{\"u}r{\"o}s, Karla Rogobete, Roxana Oravi{\textcommabelow{t}}an, Alex ru
Towards Building the LEMI Readability Platform for Children's Literature in the Romanian Language