Computational Text Analysis and Reading Comprehension Exam Complexity

Trisevgeni Liontou holds a PhD in English Linguistics with specialization in Testing from the Faculty of English Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece). She holds a BA in English Language & Literature and an MA in Lexicography: Theory and Applications, both from the same faculty. She also holds a M.Sc. in Information Technology in Education from Reading University (UK). Her current research interests include theoretical and practical issues of reading comprehension performance, computational linguistics, online teaching practices and classroom-based assessment.

• Contents: Text readability – Automatic text classification – Reading comprehension text complexity – Text difficulty – Text calibration – Computational Linguistics – Machine Learning systems – Reading comprehension exam performance – EFL reading comprehension – EFL reading strategies – Test-taker’s perspective – EFL test-taking strategies.