Sowmya V.B.

About me: I worked as an ESR in CLARA project at the University of Tuebingen between April 2011-July 2013. I worked with Prof Detmar Meurers and team on text complexity analysis and text simplification in the context of language learning and teaching.

CLARA Publications

2014

  • On assessing the reading level of individual sentences for text simplification , Sowmya Vajjala and Detmar Meurers, (to appear) In Proceedings of EACL 2014.
  • Readability Assessment for Text Simplification: From Analyzing Documents to Identifying Sentential Simplifications, Sowmya Vajjala and Detmar Meurers, (to appear) International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Special Issue on Current Research in Readability and Text Simplification.
  • Exploring Measures of “Readability” for Spoken Language: Analyzing linguistic features of subtitles to identify age-specific TV programs, Sowmya Vajjala and Detmar Meurers, (to appear) In Proceedings of PITR workshop, EACL 2014

2013

  • Vajjala, Sowmya and Detmar Meurers, On The Applicability of Readability Models to Web Texts. In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Predicting and Improving Text Readability for Target Reader Populations (PITR), pages 59–68, Sofia, Bulgaria, August 2013. Association for Computational Linguistics. URL.
  • Vajjala, Sowmya, and Kaidi Loo. Role of Morpho-Syntactic Features in Estonian Proficiency Classification. In Proceedings of the 8th workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA8), pages 63–72, Atlanta, Georgia, June 2013. Association for Computational Linguistics. URL http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W13-1708.
  • Bykh, Serhiy  and  Vajjala, Sowmya  and  Krivanek, Julia  and  Meurers, Detmar. Combining Shallow and Linguistically Motivated Features in Native Language Identification. In Proceedings of the 8th workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA8), pages 197–206, Atlanta, Georgia, June 2013. Association for Computational Linguistics. URL http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W13-1726.

2012

  • Hancke, Julia, Sowmya Vajjala, and Detmar Meurers. Readability Classification for German using Lexical, Syntactic, and Morphological Features. In Proceedings of COLING 2012, pages 1063–1080, Mumbai, India, December 2012. The COLING 2012 Organizing Committee. URL http://aclweb.org/anthology/C12-1065.
  • Vajjala, Sowmya, and Detmar Meurers. On improving the accuracy of readability classification using insights from second language acquisition. In Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications Using NLP (BEA7), pages 163–173, Montréal, Canada, June 2012. Association for Computational Linguistics. URL http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/W/W12/W12-2019.pdf.
  • Loganathan Ramasamy, Zdeněk Žabokrtský and Sowmya Vajjala. The study of effect of length in morphological segmentation of agglutinative languages. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Multilingual Modeling, Jeju, Republic of Korea, July 2012. Association for Computational Linguistics.

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