kRp.readability-class: S4 Class kRp.readability

In koRpus: Text Analysis with Emphasis on POS Tagging, Readability, and Lexical Diversity

Description

This class is used for objects that are returned by readability and its wrapper functions (e.g., Flesch, FOG or LIX).

Slots

lang

A character string, naming the language that is assumed for the text in this object.

tokens

The tokenized and POS-tagged text. See kRp.text for details.

desc

Descriptive measures which were computed from the text:

sentences:

Number of sentences.

words:

Number of words.

letters:

Named vector with total number of letters ("all") and possibly several entries called "l<digit>", giving the number of words with <digit> letters.

all.chars:

Number of all characters, including spaces.

syllables:

Named vector with the number of syllables, simlar to letters, but entries are called "s<digit>" (NA if hyphenation was skipped).

lttr.distrib:

Distribution of letters: Absolute numbers, cumulative sum, inversed cumulative sum, percent, cumulative percent, and inversed cumulative percent.

syll.distrib:

Distribution of syllables (see lttr.distrib, NA if hyphenation was skipped).

syll.uniq.distrib:

Distribution of unique syllables (see lttr.distrib, NA if hyphenation was skipped).

punct:

Number of punctuation characters.

conjunctions:

Number of conjunctions.

prepositions:

Number of prepositions.

pronouns:

Number of pronouns.

foreign:

Number of foreign words.

TTR:

Type-token ratio.

avg.sentc.length:

Average number of words per sentence.

avg.word.length:

Average number of characters per word.

avg.syll.word:

Average number of syllables per word (NA if hyphenation was skipped).

sntc.per.word:

Number of sentences per word.

sntc.per100:

Number of sentences per 100 words.

lett.per100:

Number of letters per 100 words.

syll.per100:

Number of syllables per 100 words (NA if hyphenation was skipped).

FOG.hard.words:

Number of hard words, counted according to FOG (NULL if measure was not computed).

Bormuth.NOL:

Number of words not on the Bormuth word list (NULL if measure was not computed).

Dale.Chall.NOL:

Number of words not on the Dale-Chall word list (NULL if measure was not computed).

Harris.Jacobson.NOL:

Number of words not on the Harris-Jacobson word list (NULL if measure was not computed).

Spache.NOL:

Number of words not on the Spache word list (NULL if measure was not computed).

hyphen

The hyphenated text that was actually analyzed (i.e. without certain word classes, if they were to be removed).

param

Relevant parameters of the given analysis, as given to the function call. See readability for detailed onformation.

ARI

The "flavour" of the parameter settings and the calculated value of the ARI level. NA if not calculated.

ARI.NRI

See "ARI".

ARI.simple

See "ARI".

Bormuth

The "flavour" of the parameter settings and the calculated value of Bormuth's Mean Cloze and grade level. NA if not calculated.

Coleman

The "flavour" of the parameter settings and the calculated value of the four Coleman formulas. NA if not calculated.

Coleman.Liau

The "flavour" of the parameter settings and the calculated value of the Coleman-Liau index. NA if not calculated.

Dale.Chall

The "flavour" of the parameter settings and the calculated value of the Dale-Chall Readability Formula. NA if not calculated.

Dale.Chall.PSK

See "Dale.Chall".

Dale.Chall.old

See "Dale.Chall".

Danielson.Bryan

The "flavour" of the parameter settings and the calculated value of the Danielson-Bryan Formula. NA if not calculated.

Dickes.Steiwer

The "flavour" of the parameter settings and the calculated value of Dickes-Steiwer's shortcut formula. NA if not calculated.

DRP

The "flavour" of the parameter settings and the calculated value of the Degrees of Reading Power. NA if not calculated.

ELF

The "flavour" of the parameter settings and the calculated value of the Easy Listening Formula. NA if not calculated.

Farr.Jenkins.Paterson

The "flavour" of the parameter settings and the calculated value of the Farr-Jenkins-Paterson index. NA if not calculated.

Farr.Jenkins.Paterson.PSK

See "Farr.Jenkins.Paterson".

Flesch

The "flavour" of the parameter settings and the calculated value of Flesch Reading Ease. NA if not calculated.

Flesch.PSK

See "Flesch".

Flesch.Brouwer

See "Flesch".

Flesch.Szigriszt

See "Flesch".

Flesch.de

See "Flesch".

Flesch.es

See "Flesch".

Flesch.fr

See "Flesch".

Flesch.nl

See "Flesch".

Flesch.Kincaid

The "flavour" of the parameter settings and the calculated value of the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level. NA if not calculated.

FOG

The "flavour" of the parameter settings, a list of proper nouns, combined words and verbs that were not counted as hard words ("dropped"), the considered number of hard words, and the calculated value of Gunning's FOG index. NA if not calculated.

FOG.PSK

See "FOG".

FOG.NRI

See "FOG".

FORCAST

The "flavour" of the parameter settings and the calculated value of the FORCAST grade level. NA if not calculated.

FORCAST.RGL

See "FORCAST".

Fucks

The calculated value of Fucks' Stilcharakteristik. NA if not calculated.

Gutierrez

The "flavour" of the parameter settings and the calculated value of the Gutierrez index. NA if not calculated.

Harris.Jacobson

The "flavour" of the parameter settings and the calculated value of the Harris-Jacobson index. the word list used, all words not found on the list, the percentage of difficult words, the percentage of long words, as well as HJ1 to HJ5 for the five indices. NA if not calculated.

Linsear.Write

The "flavour" of the parameter settings and the calculated value of the Linsear Write index. NA if not calculated.

LIX

The "flavour" of the parameter settings and the calculated value of the LIX index. NA if not calculated.

RIX

The "flavour" of the parameter settings and the calculated value of the RIX index. NA if not calculated.

SMOG

The "flavour" of the parameter settings and the calculated value of the SMOG grade level. NA if not calculated.

SMOG.de

See "SMOG".

SMOG.C

See "SMOG".

SMOG.simple

See "SMOG".

Spache

The "flavour" of the parameter settings and the calculated value of the Spache formula. NA if not calculated.

Spache.old

See "Spache".

Strain

The "flavour" of the parameter settings and the calculated value of the Strain index. NA if not calculated.

Traenkle.Bailer

The "flavour" of the parameter settings, percentages of prepositions and conjunctions, and the calculated values of both Tr\"ankle-Bailer formulae. NA if not calculated.

TRI

The calculated value of Kuntzsch' Text-Redundanz-Index. NA if not calculated.

Tuldava

The calculated value of the Tuldava text difficulty formula. NA if not calculated.

Wheeler.Smith

The "flavour" of the parameter settings and the calculated value of the Wheeler-Smith index. NA if not calculated.

Wheeler.Smith.de

See "Wheeler.Smith"

Wiener.STF

The "flavour" of the parameter settings and the calculated value of the Wiener Sachtextformel. NA if not calculated.

Contructor function

Should you need to manually generate objects of this class (which should rarely be the case), the contructor function kRp_readability(...) can be used instead of new("kRp.readability", ...).

koRpus documentation built on May 18, 2021, 1:13 a.m.