User Manual - Kristopher Kyle
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1. Tool for the Automatic Analysis of Lexical Sophistication TAALES User Manual for TAALES 1 4 updated 11 15 2015 Kristopher Kyle and Scott Crossley Georgia State University This document is intended to assist users of TAALES It includes a brief explanation of how to use the tool Additional information about TAALES is included in the supplementary Index Description Spreadsheet available at www kristopherkyle com Please use the following citation when referencing TAALES in your work Kyle K amp Crossley S A in press Automatically assessing lexical sophistication Indices tools findings and application TESOL Quarterly doi 10 1002 tesq 194 Options TAALES analyzes a number of textual aspects related to lexical sophistication The user can choose to include indices related to all of these aspects or can choose to constrain the output The user may choose to include indices from any or all of the following categories e word frequency and range e n gram frequency e psycholinguistic information e academic language Input All input files must be text files txt that do not include any type of markup e g XML HTML etc Files must be located in a single folder TAALES will process all txt files in the chosen input folder Saving Your Output TAALES provides output in the form of a comma separated csv file that can be opened with any spreadsheet software The default output file name is results csv t2. hough we would recommend changing this file name each time you run TAALES to ensure that the file is not overwritten Indices TAALES 1 4 calculates 104 indices in five categories Word Frequency Range N grams Academic Lists and Word Information All indices in TAALES 1 4 are normed Please see the supplementary spreadsheet file for more information Also see the article referenced above for more information
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