Re: [school-discuss] English teacher apps

[robin <robin@Bilkent.EDU.TR>]

Ben Armstrong wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 19:17, robin wrote:
>
> > I've just updated that program for comparing texts to the Academic Word 
> > List. Changes:
> >
> > 1. No longer attempts to deal with HTML files - I'm putting this off for 
> > a while.
>
> This certainly isn't the most efficient or elegant way to handle it, but
> what about filtering the html through lynx -dump -nolist?  Otherwise,
> HTML::Parser, I guess (libwww-perl).
>
> Anyway, I've had fun playing with it.  Nice work!
>
> Ben
I solved it with HTML::TokeParser.

As a bonus, the program now allows you to check web pages by pasting in 
the URL. However, as with short text files, short web pages are liekly 
to give artificially high scores (presumably because a lot of webspeak 
is in the AWL, e.g. "link").

Robin

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