Readability Measure

Posted by admin on May 15, 2012, 08:59: 11 pm

This flow loads text data from a URL, calculates the Flesch-Kincaid readability measure and displays the results.

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

Location URI: http://repository.seasr.org/Meandre/Locations/Latest/Flows/CH-all/repository_flows.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/