Saturday, February 10, 2018

Text Analyser - Updated Version

The RoadToGrammar Text Analyzer is a free-to-use web app that will analyse the difficulty level of a piece of text.

To use it, simply go to http://www.roadtogrammar.com/textanalysis/ and paste in a block of text. Click SUBMIT and the app will tell you the difficulty level according to the CEFR framework. For example, a text rated B1 is most suitable for use with students at B1 level. It can help you simplify a text because it shows picks out the more difficult words, which you can then simplify.

The app will also give a list of suggested vocabulary items, and you can even see the definitions of the items.

The upgraded version features the following changes:


  • based on a larger corpus (200,000 words) than the previous version
  • better ability to ignore proper nouns and names
  • ability to show complexity word for word
  • other statistics now shown

Step 1: Paste a text selection and click SUBMIT:




 Step 2: View the results






Step 3: Get the definitions

 Step 4: View the advanced statistics

















2 comments:

Julia said...

This is a great tool but it has stopped working!
Great work

Julia said...

The text analyser is a great tool, but it has stopped working =(

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