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java library to measure the readability of english text
https://github.com/ogrodnek/java_fathom

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java library to measure the readability of english text

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/ogrodnek/java_fathom
• Owner: ogrodnek
• Created: 2009-03-24T04:55:27.000Z (almost 16 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2021-05-11T14:42:53.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-04-13T12:05:12.084Z (over 1 year ago)
• Topics: java, readability
• Language: Java
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• Stars: 11
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 10
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: readme.md

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Measures the readability of English text.

This package is pretty much a straight port of two Perl packages into Java:

* Lingua::EN::Fathom by Kim Ryan.

* Lingua::EN::Syllable by Greg Fast.

This package allows you to generate common readability indices from English text.

### Fog Index

( words_per_sentence + percent_complex_words ) * 0.4

The Fog index, developed by Robert Gunning, indicates the number of years of formal education a reader would need to understand the text on the first reading.

### Flesch reading ease level

206.835 - (1.015 * words_per_sentence) - (84.6 * syllables_per_word)

The Flesch reading ease test rates text on a 100 point scale. The higher the score, the easier it is to understand the text. A score of 60 to 70 is considered to be optimal.

### Flesch-Kincaid grade level score

(11.8 * syllables_per_word) + (0.39 * words_per_sentence) - 15.59

The Flesch-Kincaid grade level translates the 100 point scale to a U.S. grade school level. So a score of 8.0 means that the document can be understood by an eighth grader. A score of 7.0 to 8.0 is considered to be optimal.

Released under the same license as Perl.