Michael Flor

List of John Benjamins publications in which Michael Flor is involved.

Articles

Flor, Michael, Steven Holtzman, Paul Deane and Isaac Bejar 2024 Mapping of American English vocabulary by grade levels Graded Resources for Second and Foreign Language Learning, Alfter, David and Thomas François (eds.), pp. 25–45 | Article

We describe a large-scale effort to map English-language vocabulary by U.S. school grade levels. Our motivation is to rapidly expand graded vocabulary resources for work with native English speakers in the USA, while taking into consideration school-related influences rather than relying on just… read more

Flor, Michael and Beata Beigman Klebanov 2014 Associative lexical cohesion as a factor in text complexity Recent Advances in Automatic Readability Assessment and Text Simplification, François, Thomas and Delphine Bernhard (eds.), pp. 223–258 | Article

In this paper we present an application of associative lexical cohesion to the analysis of text complexity as determined by expert-assigned US school grade levels. Lexical cohesion in a text is represented as a distribution of pairwise positive normalized mutual information values. Our… read more