An Architecture for Rating and Controlling Text Readability

In the so-called information society with its strong tendency towards individualization, it becomes more and more important to have all sorts of textual information available in a simple and easy to understand language. We present an approach that allows to automatically rate the readability of German texts and also provides suggestions how to make a given text more readable. Our system, called DeLite, employs a powerful NLP component that supports the syntactic and semantic analysis of German texts.