George R. Klare
List of John Benjamins publications in which George R. Klare is involved.
1991 'Readability' and The living word vocabulary Information Design Journal 6:3, pp. 246–247 | Article
1981 Readability indices: Do they inform or misinform? Information Design Journal 2:3/4, pp. 251–255 | Article
This paper discusses recent criticism of readability formulas, in this issue of IDJ and elsewhere; the author points to evidence in their favor and focuses on three aspects of their application: when, how and why. He distinguishes between the valid use of formulas to predict reading difficulty and… read more
1979 Writing to inform: Making it readable Information Design Journal 1:2, pp. 98–105 | Article
Persons who write to inform others need to consider how readable their writing will be. The issue breaks down into two sub-questions; predicting how readable an existing piece of writing will be, and producing a readable piece of writing. Exact answers to these complex questions cannot be given,… read more
1973 Further Experiments in Language Translation: A Second Evaluation of The Readability of Computer Translations ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 19, pp. 29–52 | Article
Language translation by computer has been proposed as a solution to the backlog of training and operational manuals awaiting translation by more conventional means. This study reports one of a series of experiments to assess the quality of translations produced by human translators and computers.… read more
1972 Further Experiments in Language Translation: Readability of Computer Translations ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 15, pp. 1–29 | Article
Application of computational linguistics, i.e., language translation by computer, has been proposed as a means of producing readable translations of technical English-to-Vietnamese. This report is about an experimental study of the readability of translations that could be used for training or… read more