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Software Service with a Plug-in Architecture for Text Readability Assessment

ACPS.
2021;
Volume 6, Number 1
: pp. 77 - 85
https://doi.org/10.23939/acps2021.01.077
Authors:
  1. Bohdan Tsebryk
  2. Alexey Botchkaryov
1
Lviv Polytechnic National University
2
Lviv Polytechnic National University, Computer Engineering Department

The problem of developing a software service with a plug-in architecture for assessing the readability of text has been considered. The problem of text readability assessment has been analyzed. Approaches to the development of a software service for text readability assessment have been considered. The structure of the service for text readability assessment has been proposed. The structure of the service has been implemented using the Python programming language and the library Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK). The results of testing the service for text readability assessment have been presented.

text readability
software service
plug-in architecture
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