Re: Readability score?

[petite_abeille]

On Friday, Nov 22, 2002, at 20:46 Europe/Zurich, petite_abeille wrote:

Does anyone have a handy library to compute "readability score"?

Here is an extract from a paper describing the Flesch index and an algorithm to count syllables... Does that make any sense?

Thanks.

"The Flesch index: An easily programmable readability analysis algorithm"
-- John Talburt

"... Each vowel (a, e, i, o, u, y) in a word counts as one syllable subject to the following sub-rules: Ignore final -ES, -ED, -E (except for -LE) Words of three letters or less count as one syllable Consecutive vowels count as one syllable. Although there are many exceptions to these rules, it works in a remarkable number of cases. ..."

http://portal.acm.org/ citation.cfm?id=10583&coll=portal&dl=ACM&CFID=5876721&CFTOKEN=58538732


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