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Tool for measuring readability of English text
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Is there a command line program that takes a file containing English text, analyzes the text, and outputs its readability scores?
For example, if one feeds the program a text, the program should output the Flesch-Kincaid grade level, McLaughlin's SMOG grading, etc.
I believe such a program exists in the official repositories, but I cannot remember its name. There's also the possibility that I am misremebering.
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Is there a command line program that takes a file containing English text, analyzes the text, and outputs its readability scores?
For example, if one feeds the program a text, the program should output the Flesch-Kincaid grade level, McLaughlin's SMOG grading, etc.
I believe such a program exists in the official repositories, but I cannot remember its name. There's also the possibility that I am misremebering.
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Is there a command line program that takes a file containing English text, analyzes the text, and outputs its readability scores?
For example, if one feeds the program a text, the program should output the Flesch-Kincaid grade level, McLaughlin's SMOG grading, etc.
I believe such a program exists in the official repositories, but I cannot remember its name. There's also the possibility that I am misremebering.
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Is there a command line program that takes a file containing English text, analyzes the text, and outputs its readability scores?
For example, if one feeds the program a text, the program should output the Flesch-Kincaid grade level, McLaughlin's SMOG grading, etc.
I believe such a program exists in the official repositories, but I cannot remember its name. There's also the possibility that I am misremebering.
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The diction package contains a tool called
style:
Styleanalyses the surface characteristics of the writing style of a
document. It prints
various readability grades, length of words, sentences and paragraphs. It can further
locate sentences with certain characteristics.
For example, if I evaluate your question body (saved in a file flux_question) to print the sentences with a readability index (ARI) over 10:
$ style -r 10 flux_question
flux_question:1: Is there a command line program that takes a file containing English text, analyzes the text, and outputs its readability scores?
flux_question:2: For example, if one feeds the program a text, the program should output the Flesch-Kincaid grade level, McLaughlin's SMOG grading, etc.
readability grades:
Kincaid: 10.2
ARI: 10.8
Coleman-Liau: 12.5
Flesch Index: 51.1/100
Fog Index: 12.0
Lix: 48.6 = school year 9
SMOG-Grading: 11.2
sentence info:
333 characters
65 words, average length 5.12 characters = 1.65 syllables
4 sentences, average length 16.2 words
25% (1) short sentences (at most 11 words)
0% (0) long sentences (at least 26 words)
1 paragraphs, average length 4.0 sentences
25% (1) questions
25% (1) passive sentences
longest sent 21 wds at sent 2; shortest sent 8 wds at sent 4
word usage:
verb types:
to be (1) auxiliary (2)
types as % of total:
conjunctions 5% (3) pronouns 9% (6) prepositions 2% (1)
nominalizations 0% (0)
sentence beginnings:
pronoun (1) interrogative pronoun (0) article (0)
subordinating conjunction (0) conjunction (0) preposition (0)
To filter the output you can use e.g. tail -n8 to get only the grades or grep 'Flesch|SMOG' to just print the Flesch Index and the SMOG-Grading:
$ style style_test | grep 'Flesch|SMOG'
Flesch Index: 51.7/100
SMOG-Grading: 11.2
Further reading
man style- linux.com article: Improve your writing with the GNU style checkers
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The diction package contains a tool called
style:
Styleanalyses the surface characteristics of the writing style of a
document. It prints
various readability grades, length of words, sentences and paragraphs. It can further
locate sentences with certain characteristics.
For example, if I evaluate your question body (saved in a file flux_question) to print the sentences with a readability index (ARI) over 10:
$ style -r 10 flux_question
flux_question:1: Is there a command line program that takes a file containing English text, analyzes the text, and outputs its readability scores?
flux_question:2: For example, if one feeds the program a text, the program should output the Flesch-Kincaid grade level, McLaughlin's SMOG grading, etc.
readability grades:
Kincaid: 10.2
ARI: 10.8
Coleman-Liau: 12.5
Flesch Index: 51.1/100
Fog Index: 12.0
Lix: 48.6 = school year 9
SMOG-Grading: 11.2
sentence info:
333 characters
65 words, average length 5.12 characters = 1.65 syllables
4 sentences, average length 16.2 words
25% (1) short sentences (at most 11 words)
0% (0) long sentences (at least 26 words)
1 paragraphs, average length 4.0 sentences
25% (1) questions
25% (1) passive sentences
longest sent 21 wds at sent 2; shortest sent 8 wds at sent 4
word usage:
verb types:
to be (1) auxiliary (2)
types as % of total:
conjunctions 5% (3) pronouns 9% (6) prepositions 2% (1)
nominalizations 0% (0)
sentence beginnings:
pronoun (1) interrogative pronoun (0) article (0)
subordinating conjunction (0) conjunction (0) preposition (0)
To filter the output you can use e.g. tail -n8 to get only the grades or grep 'Flesch|SMOG' to just print the Flesch Index and the SMOG-Grading:
$ style style_test | grep 'Flesch|SMOG'
Flesch Index: 51.7/100
SMOG-Grading: 11.2
Further reading
man style- linux.com article: Improve your writing with the GNU style checkers
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The diction package contains a tool called
style:
Styleanalyses the surface characteristics of the writing style of a
document. It prints
various readability grades, length of words, sentences and paragraphs. It can further
locate sentences with certain characteristics.
For example, if I evaluate your question body (saved in a file flux_question) to print the sentences with a readability index (ARI) over 10:
$ style -r 10 flux_question
flux_question:1: Is there a command line program that takes a file containing English text, analyzes the text, and outputs its readability scores?
flux_question:2: For example, if one feeds the program a text, the program should output the Flesch-Kincaid grade level, McLaughlin's SMOG grading, etc.
readability grades:
Kincaid: 10.2
ARI: 10.8
Coleman-Liau: 12.5
Flesch Index: 51.1/100
Fog Index: 12.0
Lix: 48.6 = school year 9
SMOG-Grading: 11.2
sentence info:
333 characters
65 words, average length 5.12 characters = 1.65 syllables
4 sentences, average length 16.2 words
25% (1) short sentences (at most 11 words)
0% (0) long sentences (at least 26 words)
1 paragraphs, average length 4.0 sentences
25% (1) questions
25% (1) passive sentences
longest sent 21 wds at sent 2; shortest sent 8 wds at sent 4
word usage:
verb types:
to be (1) auxiliary (2)
types as % of total:
conjunctions 5% (3) pronouns 9% (6) prepositions 2% (1)
nominalizations 0% (0)
sentence beginnings:
pronoun (1) interrogative pronoun (0) article (0)
subordinating conjunction (0) conjunction (0) preposition (0)
To filter the output you can use e.g. tail -n8 to get only the grades or grep 'Flesch|SMOG' to just print the Flesch Index and the SMOG-Grading:
$ style style_test | grep 'Flesch|SMOG'
Flesch Index: 51.7/100
SMOG-Grading: 11.2
Further reading
man style- linux.com article: Improve your writing with the GNU style checkers
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The diction package contains a tool called
style:
Styleanalyses the surface characteristics of the writing style of a
document. It prints
various readability grades, length of words, sentences and paragraphs. It can further
locate sentences with certain characteristics.
For example, if I evaluate your question body (saved in a file flux_question) to print the sentences with a readability index (ARI) over 10:
$ style -r 10 flux_question
flux_question:1: Is there a command line program that takes a file containing English text, analyzes the text, and outputs its readability scores?
flux_question:2: For example, if one feeds the program a text, the program should output the Flesch-Kincaid grade level, McLaughlin's SMOG grading, etc.
readability grades:
Kincaid: 10.2
ARI: 10.8
Coleman-Liau: 12.5
Flesch Index: 51.1/100
Fog Index: 12.0
Lix: 48.6 = school year 9
SMOG-Grading: 11.2
sentence info:
333 characters
65 words, average length 5.12 characters = 1.65 syllables
4 sentences, average length 16.2 words
25% (1) short sentences (at most 11 words)
0% (0) long sentences (at least 26 words)
1 paragraphs, average length 4.0 sentences
25% (1) questions
25% (1) passive sentences
longest sent 21 wds at sent 2; shortest sent 8 wds at sent 4
word usage:
verb types:
to be (1) auxiliary (2)
types as % of total:
conjunctions 5% (3) pronouns 9% (6) prepositions 2% (1)
nominalizations 0% (0)
sentence beginnings:
pronoun (1) interrogative pronoun (0) article (0)
subordinating conjunction (0) conjunction (0) preposition (0)
To filter the output you can use e.g. tail -n8 to get only the grades or grep 'Flesch|SMOG' to just print the Flesch Index and the SMOG-Grading:
$ style style_test | grep 'Flesch|SMOG'
Flesch Index: 51.7/100
SMOG-Grading: 11.2
Further reading
man style- linux.com article: Improve your writing with the GNU style checkers
answered 4 hours ago
dessertdessert
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The diction package contains a tool called
style:
Styleanalyses the surface characteristics of the writing style of a
document. It prints
various readability grades, length of words, sentences and paragraphs. It can further
locate sentences with certain characteristics.
For example, if I evaluate your question body (saved in a file flux_question) to print the sentences with a readability index (ARI) over 10:
$ style -r 10 flux_question
flux_question:1: Is there a command line program that takes a file containing English text, analyzes the text, and outputs its readability scores?
flux_question:2: For example, if one feeds the program a text, the program should output the Flesch-Kincaid grade level, McLaughlin's SMOG grading, etc.
readability grades:
Kincaid: 10.2
ARI: 10.8
Coleman-Liau: 12.5
Flesch Index: 51.1/100
Fog Index: 12.0
Lix: 48.6 = school year 9
SMOG-Grading: 11.2
sentence info:
333 characters
65 words, average length 5.12 characters = 1.65 syllables
4 sentences, average length 16.2 words
25% (1) short sentences (at most 11 words)
0% (0) long sentences (at least 26 words)
1 paragraphs, average length 4.0 sentences
25% (1) questions
25% (1) passive sentences
longest sent 21 wds at sent 2; shortest sent 8 wds at sent 4
word usage:
verb types:
to be (1) auxiliary (2)
types as % of total:
conjunctions 5% (3) pronouns 9% (6) prepositions 2% (1)
nominalizations 0% (0)
sentence beginnings:
pronoun (1) interrogative pronoun (0) article (0)
subordinating conjunction (0) conjunction (0) preposition (0)
To filter the output you can use e.g. tail -n8 to get only the grades or grep 'Flesch|SMOG' to just print the Flesch Index and the SMOG-Grading:
$ style style_test | grep 'Flesch|SMOG'
Flesch Index: 51.7/100
SMOG-Grading: 11.2
Further reading
man style- linux.com article: Improve your writing with the GNU style checkers
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