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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Wed, 6 Nov 1996 08:52:00 MST
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 19:22:39 -0600
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From: gep2@computek.net
Subject: Gunning FOG or Flesch-Kincaid readability indexes
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>I am interested in finding some grammar checkers, and readability
indices that I can use standalone, on Linux. I think that the formula
for the readability indices is simple; Snobol4 would be a natural, and
it might be trivial in Icon as well. I am not up to speed in either
at this point.
Both languages are well worth learning!
>Is there any substantial body of programs that exists in these areas?
I'm not aware of those SPECIFIC programs, but there are large libraries of
programs for each. I'm taking the liberty of cross-posting your message also to
the SNOBOL4 mailing list, in hopes that somebody there might also be able to
help you.
>I wonder if there is an extant SNOBOL4 distribution that will run on
Linux---probably any unix based SNOBOL4?
Yes, there's a version of SIL SNOBOL that Phil Budne has converted to C, and
which runs on essentially any system with a good production-quality C compiler.
>I was priviledged to have
been given a copy of SNOBOL4+ by the developer once, which I messed
about with in trying to make sense of a lexicon on animal names in
Chuukic languages; I ended up using a different method for dealing
with linguistic data, and used emacs lisp/emacs for manipulation,
That's a pity... I think that SNOBOL4 or ICON would have been a far better
choice.
>printing with LaTeX. Alot of the extant SNOBOL4 programs I saw were
relatively similar to what I am interested in now---grammar analysis,
readability indices.
Actually, that's not really true... you can't *imagine* the diversity of SNOBOL4
programs out there!
Gordon Peterson
http://www.computek.net/public/gep2/