Cited by 2,332Text Readability and SimplificationReading and Literacy DevelopmentSecond Language Acquisition and Learning

“Cloze Procedure”: A New Tool for Measuring Readability

Taylor, Wilson L.·1953·Journalism Quarterly

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Here is the first comprehensive statement of a research method and its theory which were introduced briefly during a workshop at the 1953 AEJ convention. Included are findings from three pilot studies and two experiments in which “cloze procedure” results are compared with those of two readability formulas.

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  • Denoising objectives produce better performance than causal language modeling and have become standard.

    “However, it has recently been shown that 'denoising' objectives (Devlin et al., 2018; Taylor, 1953) (also called 'masked language modeling') produce better performance and as a result they have quickly become standard.”

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Authors
Taylor, W. L.
Corresponding author
Taylor, Wilson L.
Venue
Journalism Quarterly
Published
1953-09
Volume
30
Issue
4
Pages
415-433
ISSN
  • 0196-3031 (ISSN-L)
  • 0022-5533
OpenAlex
W2270070752
Cited by
2,332
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0
Citations by year
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FWCI
13.01
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
Journalism Quarterly (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Text Readability and Simplification
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Reading and Literacy Development
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Second Language Acquisition and Learning
Keywords
cloze test, readability, readability formulas, text comprehension, pilot study

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