AlphaReadabilityChinese:汉语文本可读性工具开发与应用  

AlphaReadabilityChinese:A Tool for the Measurement of Readability in Chinese Texts and Its Applications

作　　者：雷蕾[1] 韦瑶瑜 刘康龙 LEI Lei;WEI Yaoyu;LIU Kanglong

机构地区：[1]上海外国语大学语料库研究院,上海201620 [2]上海外国语大学国际教育学院,上海201620 [3]香港理工大学中文及双语学系,中国香港999077

出　　处：《外语与外语教学》2024年第1期83-93,149,共12页Foreign Languages and Their Teaching

基　　金：上海外国语大学重大攻关项目“面向国际中文教育的语料库建设、系统开发及创新研究”(项目编号:23ZD011)的阶段性研究成果。

摘　　要：文本可读性是文本的重要语言特征,已被广泛应用于多个学科的研究。现有可读性研究大多聚焦于英语文本可读性指标和工具的开发,而针对汉语的研究尚处于起步阶段。另外,相关研究多采用词汇和句法等表层特征,且主要聚焦国际中文教育教材和学习者文本。本文旨在报告我们开发的汉语文本可读性工具AlphaReadabilityChinese。该工具包括词汇、句法、语义三个维度共九个语言指标,采用了更成熟、稳健的算法开发,是通用的汉语可读性指标和工具。本文以金庸和古龙两位作家的作品为语料测试该工具的有效性。结果显示,两位作家的作品在可读性指标上具有较大差异,金庸作品文本的可读性显著弱于古龙作品。测试结果同时表明,该工具所包含的可读性指标可以很好地区分两位作家的作品。论文最后分析了AlphaReadabilityChinese在数字人文、国际中文教育、新闻传播、信息科学、经济/金融等学科领域的应用前景。Text readability is an important linguistic feature that has been widely explored in research across various disciplines.While most existing studies have focused on the development of readability indices and tools for English texts,research on that for Chinese texts is still in its infancy.In addition,most research used surface features at lexical and syntactic levels and focused on the readability of teaching materials for international Chinese language education and texts by L2 Chinese learners.In this article,we introduce AlphaReadabilityChinese,a text readability tool we have developed for Chinese texts.The tool includes nine indices that measure linguistic features at lexical,syntactic,and semantic levels and was developed with more sophisticated and robust algorithms.More importantly,the tool serves as a general-purpose tool for the measurement of readability for Chinese texts.In a case study,AlphaReadabilityChinese was used to analyze the works of Jin Yong and Gu Long.The results showed that(1)significant differences exist in readability between the works of these two authors,and(2)the indices included in our tool can effectively differentiate their works.We also discuss possibilities for the application of AlphaReadabilityChinese in fields such as digital humanities,international Chinese language education,news and communication studies,information science,and economics and finance.

关 键 词：汉语 文本可读性 金庸 古龙 数字人文 

分 类 号：H0[语言文字—语言学]