To address these issues, we first present two new data sets for German readability assessment in Section 3: a set of German news broadcast subtitles based on the primary German TV news outlet Tagesschau and the children's counterpart Logo!, and a GEO/GEOlino corpus crawled from the educational GEO magazine's web site, a source first identified by <cite>Hancke et al. (2012)</cite> , but double in size.