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A application calculating the Flesch Index in C++.

Flesch Index

A application calculating the Flesch Index in C++ using simple measures.

The Flesch Index (FI), a numerical measure of the readability of English text. Originally invented for evaluating the difficulty of reading U.S. Army training manuals, it has since become ubiquitous.

Earlier on I said this application used simple measures in the Flesch Index calculation, this was pointed out for several reasons:

1. Syllables
2. Sentences
3. Words

As an native English speaker, these reasons seem very base, except the more I personally looked into them, the more I realized the difficulty of a machine knowing phonemes, sentence break downs, and even words from a sentence.

Requirements:

• CMake >= 3.1
• C++11

How To Use:

Once the repo has been pulled down, follow these steps to compile and run:

cd <RepoLocation>
cd build
cmake ..
make
bin/flesch-index ../data/GettysburgAddress.txt

Line number:

1. Moves into the root of the repo so that other command can be relative.
2. This sets up and out of program build for the next lines.

• This allows the build file generated to not funk up the repo.

3. Calls the cmake to on ../CMakeLists.txt to generate build files.
4. This starts the compile on the generated build structure
5. This is an example use of the application with a sample data.

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