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[Thomas R. Jones]

On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 02:00 +0000, Duane Hinnen wrote:
> 
> The mentioning of a readability test got me curious. I ran a few pages
> from help.ubuntu.com, (specifically
> https://help.ubuntu.com/9.10/add-applications/C/index.html) through
> some readability tests. I hope the team finds them useful, or at least
> interesting.
> 
> The format of the results is:
>      1. The URL of  the text analyzed
>      2. The results of the tests
>      3. Suggested sentences for rewrite
> You can find the results here:
> http://people.ubuntu.com/~duanedesign/ubuntuwiki.readabilityTest.txt
> 
>From looking at your results, with the specified algorithms being
presented together, I believe you utilized the GNU diction and style
applications. Correct?

I have utilized those applications before to implement a quick review.
But i have found that the calculations are not dead on when i have
manually calculated these. You are right on track with the original
intent of my post though.

Might i ask how you prepared the text before processing? Did you
sanitize the docs?

Also, how did you actually process the sources? Did you echo the sources
in the terminal or did you pipeline the sources from another
application? The reason i ask is that both format and canonicalization
will both affect the results.

Cheers.
Thomas

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