Lingua::EN::Fathom - readability and general measurements of English text

SYNOPSIS

use Lingua::EN::Fathom;

my $text = new Lingua::EN::Fathom;

$text->analyse_file("sample.txt");

$accumulate = 1;
$text->analyse_block($text_string,$accumulate);

   $num_chars             = $text->num_chars;
   $num_words             = $text->num_words;
   $percent_complex_words = $text->percent_complex_words;
   $num_sentences         = $text->num_sentences;
   $num_text_lines        = $text->num_text_lines;
   $num_blank_lines       = $text->num_blank_lines;
   $num_paragraphs        = $text->num_paragraphs;

$syllables_per_word = $text->syllables_per_word; $words_per_sentence = $text->words_per_sentence;

%words = $text->unique_words;
foreach $word ( sort keys %words )
{

print("$words{$word} :$word\n");
}

$fog = $text->fog;
$flesch = $text->flesch;
$kincaid = $text->kincaid;

print($text->report);

DESCRIPTION

This module analyses English text in either a string or file. Totals are then calculated for the number of characters, words, sentences, blank and non blank (text) lines and paragraphs.

Three common readability statistics are also derived, the Fog, Flesch and Kincaid indices.

All of these properties can be accessed through individual methods, or by generating a text report.

A hash of all unique words and the number of times they occur is generated.

REQUIRES

Perl, version 5.001 or higher, Lingua::EN::Syllable

HOW TO INSTALL

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

BUGS

None known

AUTHOR

Lingua::EN::Fathom was written by Kim Ryan, kimryan at cpan dot org.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2011 Kim Ryan. All rights reserved.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.