| Challenge: | a study on diagnosing the textual difficulties of children's books is published . it focuses on the passages of the books that are difficult to understand for underage children . |
| Approach: | They propose to diagnose the difficulties appearing in French children's books . they focus on the subject pronouns "il" and "elle" and detect difficult anaphoras . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method detects half of the difficult anaphorical pronouns in french children's books . authors say it is complementary of previous approaches to support dyslexia . |
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