Assessing Readability with LLMs: The Role of Reasoning and Few-Shot Prompting

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arXiv:2609.24650v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Readability assessment is essential for tailoring texts to intended audiences across educational, healthcare, and information retrieval domains. However, traditional readability formulas struggle to generalize across genres and languages, while supervised machine learning models rely on scarce, domain-specific annotated corpora, limiting their applicability--particularly for less-resourced languages. Large Language Models (LLMs) offer a highly scal