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Analyzing Traditional and Neural Approaches to Multilingual Readability Assessment

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 9, 2026 · UTC

Transformer-based models excel at Automatic Readability Assessment (ARA), yet feature-based models remain in active use because their predictions tie back to linguistic properties. This matters because readability labels are subjective and rater-dependent, so high accuracy on noisy ground truth may reflect surface patterns rather than the linguistic structure that defines difficulty. We test whether transformers internalize the same features as traditional models across Arabic, English, French, Hindi, and Russian using the ReadMe++ dataset. Shapley Additive Explanations (SHAP) identify the fea

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