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This tool analyses the text entered by the user offering the following information:

 

  • Type/token ratio => Proportion of tokens (i.e. total number of words in a text) and types (i.e. words which are different in a text). The type/token ratio is also referred to as lexical density (Carter, 1987).

     

    For example, a text of 120 tokens, containing 78 types (different words), has a type/token ratio of 65%. According to King and Flynn (2005), when the index is over 60% the text is dense and shows a considerable degree of difficulty; between 50% and 60% the difficulty is medium and below that the text can be considered as not difficult.

     

  • Lexical diversity => Given that the type/token ratio is very much dependent on text length, ADA also offers the "lexical diversity index", based on Yule's K characteristic (Yule, 1944, cited in Oakes, 1998: 204), as it measures lexical richness regardless of text length.>

     

  • Frequency list of the text => List of the words the text contains, ordered by frequency, thus highlighting the keywords in the extract.
INSTRUCTIONS:
Enter the text. You can type, paste or upload it. If you choose this last option it must be a txt file.
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