READABILITY OF LINKED DATA WITH EXPERIMENTS ON SCHOOL TEXTBOOKS

This paper describes ongoing experiments to check the readability of linked documents. A user study was conducted on school textbooks by manually adding hyperlinks to some of the central concepts in the text. The study was conducted on school children whose second language was English. It was found statistically significant over plain texts. We also describe our experiment to automatically add hyperlinks to text. Other than adding hyperlinks we also did some text simplification to understand the effect on comprehensibility. Finally it discusses a possible way to measure that change in readability due to linking. A formula is proposed for readability of linked documents that gives a reasonable approximation to the readability.