--------------------------------------------- # Text Simplification: Impact of Noun Phrase Length on Sentence Difficulty Preferred citation (DataCite format): G. Leroy, D. Kauchak and A. Hogue (2016), Effects of Text Simplification: Evaluation of Splitting up Noun Phrases Journal of Health Communication, 21(S1), 18-26, 2016. PMID: 27043754 PMCID: PMC4864954 DOI: 10.1080/10810730.2015.1131775 Corresponding Author: Gondy Leroy, MIS/University of Arizona, gondyleroy@arizona.edu License: CC BY-NC 4.0 DOI: https://doi.org/10.25422/azu.data.21357498 --------------------------------------------- ## Summary As described in Section 2 of the associated publication, this dataset contains 360 sentencesThis dataset contains 360 sentences from 12 experimental conditions: NP length (2-gram, 3-gram, 4-gram), NP split (Yes/No), and pseudoword use (Yes/No). Perceived difficulty (Likert Scale) and actual difficulty (multiple choice content questions) for each sentence are provided as an average. The average is based on approximately 35 evaluations per sentence by Amazon Mechanical Turk workers. Refer to the README tab in the .xslx file for more information about the data.