Linguistic Factors in the Readability of Czech Administrative and Legal Texts

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11320%2F24%3A10492794" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11320/24:10492794 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://doi.org/10.23783/9783706912143" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.23783/9783706912143</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.23783/9783706912143" target="_blank" >10.23783/9783706912143</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Linguistic Factors in the Readability of Czech Administrative and Legal Texts

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

In our experiment with comprehension testing of Czech legal texts and their paraphrases by two lawyers committed to plain writing, we observed that readers achieved different reading comprehension scores, the main factor being the text author. This effect was particularly strong on weaker readers. In this chapter, we seek to find textual features that distinguish the writing styles. Interestingly, the authors do not differ in the classic syntactic and lexical criteria such as syntactic complexity or lexical diversity. At the same time, we observe differences in Entropy and number of hapaxes. We stipulate that these metrics have to do with how the information is ordered and hence might even reflect the logical coherence of the text.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Linguistic Factors in the Readability of Czech Administrative and Legal Texts

Popis výsledku anglicky

In our experiment with comprehension testing of Czech legal texts and their paraphrases by two lawyers committed to plain writing, we observed that readers achieved different reading comprehension scores, the main factor being the text author. This effect was particularly strong on weaker readers. In this chapter, we seek to find textual features that distinguish the writing styles. Interestingly, the authors do not differ in the classic syntactic and lexical criteria such as syntactic complexity or lexical diversity. At the same time, we observe differences in Entropy and number of hapaxes. We stipulate that these metrics have to do with how the information is ordered and hence might even reflect the logical coherence of the text.

Druh

O - Ostatní výsledky

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA19-19191S" target="_blank" >GA19-19191S: Lingvistické faktory pochopitelnosti v českých administrativních a odborných textech</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů