Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious: Why Using the “Right” Readability Formula in Children’s Web Search Matters
Published in ECIR, 2022
Recommended citation: Garrett Allen, Ashlee Milton, Katherine Landau Wright, Jerry Alan Fails, Casey Kennington, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2022. "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious: Why Using the "Right" Readability Formula in Children's Web Search Matters". In Proceedings of the 44th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR '22). ACM, pp 3-18. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-99736-6_1
We investigate the effect of simple readability formulas on each step of the search process. We present findings indicating that careful consideration is required when assessing readability automatically, dependent on the step of the search process and the target domain. pdf