tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16125488008301914162024-02-20T01:34:08.841-08:00Readability MeasurementLuan Nguyenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07401909044982028231noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1612548800830191416.post-77656485651508439912008-04-06T17:26:00.000-07:002008-04-06T17:31:51.654-07:00I started on write introduction, background information about readability and past achievements for the project.<br />Counting syllable remains the difficult part to code. There are numbers of different ways to count syllable in English,source code from Flesh gives a very good way of counting syllable, however I am searching for other althernative methods.<br />This week I will finish writing part of my thesis. Decide what methods of counting syllable to go for. And to code the remaining parts.<br />This will take at most 2 weeks, and finish before the draft thesis to be handed in.Luan Nguyenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07401909044982028231noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1612548800830191416.post-86240203527593423502008-03-25T17:05:00.000-07:002008-03-25T20:30:43.804-07:00First blog (week 3 + easter break)It's been one week since I received the project.<br /><br />I have done the following:<br /><br />1. I read papers about readablity measurement such as:<br /><br />Klare George R., Assising Readability, Reading Research Quarterly, Vol. 10<br /><br />Adaptive Approach to Concordance Readability<br /><br />Wiki and google for linguistic definition of "syllable" and how to count " syllable"<br /><br />And also details on the Flesh Website<br /><br />2. I downloaded the source code from Flesh and try to understand the code, as well as how to reproduce one.<br /><br />I also got the source code for TextMining from Jorge, trying out the examples and to understand more about the library, how corpus, storage works.<br /><br />3. Since a lot of other readibility measurement programs online use the Flesch-Kincaid scale, I will use the same for my project as well. Only challenging thing is to count the "syllable" correctly.<br /><br />4. I could not find any readability formula for Vietnamese, I think it would be different for English' one because the way words are formed and pronounced.<br /><br /><br /><br />For the coming week (end of week 4):<br /><br />I will get started on the coding. Using the library from Jorge to break down the documents and count numbers of syllable and hence work on the Readability calculation.Luan Nguyenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07401909044982028231noreply@blogger.com0