Glitter: Visualizing Lexical Surprisal for Readability in Administrative Texts

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Authors: Černý, Jan, Ivana Kvapilíková, Silvie Cinková
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Abstract

This work investigates how measuring information entropy of text can be used to estimate its readability. We propose a visualization framework that can be used to approximate information entropy of text using multiple language models and visualize the result. The end goal is to use this method to estimate and improve readability and clarity of administrative or bureaucratic texts. Our toolset is available as a libre software on https://github.com/ufal/Glitter.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Text Readability and Simplification Natural Language Processing Techniques Computational and Text Analysis Methods

Publication details

Journal / source
arXiv (Cornell University)
Publication date
8 January 2026
Document type
Preprint