May 2019
Beginner
528 pages
29h 51m
English
An interesting use of natural language processing is assessing text readability, which is affected by the vocabulary used, sentence structure, sentence length, topic and more. While writing this book, we used the paid tool Grammarly to help tune the writing and ensure the text’s readability for a wide audience.
In this section, we’ll use the Textatistic library24 to assess readability.25 There are many formulas used in natural language processing to calculate readability. Textatistic uses five popular readability formulas—Flesch Reading Ease, Flesch-Kincaid, Gunning Fog, Simple Measure of Gobbledygook (SMOG) and Dale-Chall.
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