Re: [school-discuss] English teacher apps

[Dennis Daniels <ddaniels@magic.fr>]

Robin,
Your work on this app is amazing! I've shown it to a couple of my 
coworkers and their jaws dropped! I really like the output showing which 
words were used; that is very helpful. I was wondering about how 
non-techie teachers can upload their target word lists or a redirect to 
a web page or text file on the network for processing. For example, some 
of our teachers here have a weekly word list, simple text, on the 
network. Do you have any plans or ideas on how to redirect the target 
search list to another file? With or instead of the AWL, another list 
that is in simple text? It's really a very cool little piece of coding 
here! What are your plans for licensing? GPL? LGPL?
all the best!
Dennis


robin wrote:
> 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