Software

the new version 1.7 of TextQuest Text Analysis software is now available. There are some new features and extensions:

• a new input format called sentence format. This allows the automatic text segmentation of plain text files into grammatical sentences as a text unit (or unit of analysis). Abbrevations points are recognised, and a separate file containing possible abbrevations (e.g. Dr. Prof. etc.) can be extended
• new formulas for readability. The readability analysis now contains 60 readability formulas for English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch, Danish, and Swedish. The whole module was revised, checking all formulas in the literature (and detecting many copying errors from the original sources). The readability module can also be used for one's own writing, because too long sentence, too long words, or too complex sentences can be written to an output file for later inspection. The values can be specified, e.g. sentences with more than 15 words are too long, words having more than 7 characters are too long etc.