The REAP project http://orleans.lti.cs.cmu.edu/Reap/ may be helpful.
It's intended to a) assess text difficulty, b) locate texts that have
a particular difficulty level, and c) assess student ability with such
texts. REAP takes a lexically oriented approach to measuring text
difficulty (in contrast to the traditional sentence-oriented measures).
Some of the papers linked at the bottom of the page discuss their
methodology.
Doug
xing wrote:
> Dear All
> I am studying on the readability of English discourses based on the theory of information. Now I have developed a program which can distinguish English texts from different difficulty levels. Now my puzzle is how to get enough graded English texts to test my result. I have collected some materials such as TOEFL reading materials to test the result. But the amount is not big enough. I hope I can get more English reading materials which have been graded by people. The materials can be English examination materials,course books,stories, novels, news or anything. The broader the better.
> Thanks in advance!
>
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