1) Research Assistant, Linguistic Convergence Laboratory, HSE University, Russia, Saint-Petersburg, pkolmogorova@hse.ru 2) Research Assistant, Linguistic Convergence Laboratory, HSE University, Russia, Saint-Petersburg, kulikova.e.r@hse.ru
The paper discusses the issue of assessing difficulty of the texts from the Virtual Visit page of the Hermitage Museum website. The methodology for assessing sub-jective difficulty, in contrast to complexity as a more objective, measurable charac-teristic of the text, seems to be an open question. The article describes the results of a pilot experiment in which informants evaluated texts, highlighting and commenting on fragments that cause difficulties. The analysis showed that the most common causes of difficulties are terminology, complex syntactic constructions, and mor-phological aspects. Based on the results, it is proposed to improve the experimental procedure for assessing text difficulty: provide informants with a list of potential difficulties to direct their linguistic reflection, add questions about the reading pro-cess, and develop a method for an unbiased assessment of the level of knowledge about art.
art text; virtual tour; text complexity; text difficulty.
Download textFor citing: Kolmogorova P.A., Kulikova E.R. (2025) Subjectivedifficulty of the texts from the Virtual Visit to the Hermitage Museum: a pilot study. Human being: Image and essence. Humanitarian aspects. Moscow. INION RAN.Vol. 2 (62). pp. 139-155. DOI: 10.31249/chel/2025.02.08