Readability Measure

Posted by admin on Nov 3 2009 03:16:15pm

This flow loads text data from a url, calculates the flesch-kincaid readability measure and displays the results.

Keywords:

• measure
• readability
• kincaid
• flesch

 

Flow URI: http://seasr.org/flows/readability-measure/

Location URI: http://repository.seasr.org/Meandre/Locations/1.4.8/Flows/readability-measure/repository.rdf

Overview

This flow loads text data from a url, calculates the Flesch-Kincaid readability measure and displays the results.
The Flesch Kincaid readability measure is explained at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flesch-Kincaid_Readability_Test. This code is based on the work done by Daniel Shiffman at http://www.shiffman.net/teaching/a2z/week1/

References

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flesch-Kincaid_Readability_Test
• http://www.shiffman.net/teaching/a2z/week1/