Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Social Science, Public Health and Education (SSPHE 2018)

Relationship Research between Chinese-character Continuation and Language Difficulty Level in Chinese Text

Authors
Zezhi Zheng, Dongjie Zhou
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Zezhi Zheng
Available Online January 2019.
DOI
10.2991/ssphe-18.2019.1How to use a DOI?
Keywords
language difficulty level, two-Chinese-character Continuation, “potential” and "state" measurement
Abstract

Text grading is beneficial to compile, recommend and evaluate the textbook, etc. Therefore, the measure of difficulty level of texts has received considerable attentions from researchers. In this paper, the static difficulty of units of language and knowledge, like Chinese-characters and words or phrases, which we named it as "potential", and the dynamic combined difficulty, like the usage of Chinese-character Continuations and word Continuations, which we named it as "state", the two type measurements were researched in Chinese text. With our studies of metrological analysis, evidences and data, the results suggested that (i) in the “potential” measurement, the amount of word type shows statistical reliability; (ii) in the "state" measurement, the Chinese-character Continuation is better than the word Continuation and the two-Chinese-character Continuation is better than the other length Chinese-character Continuation in the comprehensive performance for measuring the language difficulty level of Chinese text; (iii) the Chinese-character Continuation could break the encapsulation of word, and to a considerable extent, shows the difficulty of combination, semantic and logical relations of language expression. As a result, the Chinese-character Continuation has high statistical reliability for measuring the complexity of Chinese text.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Social Science, Public Health and Education (SSPHE 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
January 2019
ISBN
978-94-6252-653-2
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/ssphe-18.2019.1How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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