Arabic Word-level Readability Visualization for Assisted Text Simplification

TL;DR

This paper introduces a Google Docs add-on for Arabic that visualizes word-level readability, aiding manual text simplification through lemmatization, readability lexicons, and substitution suggestions.

Contribution

It presents a novel Arabic readability visualization tool with integrated lemmatization and substitution features, publicly available for aiding text simplification.

Findings

Facilitates assessment of Arabic text difficulty

Identifies difficult words for simplification

Provides substitution suggestions based on Arabic WordNet

Abstract

This demo paper presents a Google Docs add-on for automatic Arabic word-level readability visualization. The add-on includes a lemmatization component that is connected to a five-level readability lexicon and Arabic WordNet-based substitution suggestions. The add-on can be used for assessing the reading difficulty of a text and identifying difficult words as part of the task of manual text simplification. We make our add-on and its code publicly available.