Posts tagged readability

arcanicity.appspot.com – How much jargon does your text contain?

1 year ago

by Danny Goodall in Arcanicity, Cloud Stuff, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Python

My first Google App Engine project went live yesterday. This one deals with estimating the readability of a text when jargon such as acronyms and abbreviations are taken into account.

</marketing-bit>As I’ve mentioned before I’m developing a Natural Language Processing system called ScrewTinny (scrutiny) that analyses the language that high-tech vendors use to take their products to market. Knowing how much jargon text contains allows me to infer which audience the text is aimed at (IT Technical, IT Business, Business). And that’s important to More >

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The Un-Mission Statement

2 years ago

by Danny Goodall in General

I’m not a big fan of mission statements…

but I thought I’d better set out a manifesto – a mission statement of sorts for this blog. I wanted to set down in writing the sort of content I’ll be posting in these pages. I already blog on technology marketing and competitive intelligence issues in my blog at Lustratus REPAMA and I tweet on similar issues at @lustratusrepama. So I’ll save comment on those subjects for there.

But I needed a place on the Internet where I could lay my geek hat and call home. I can’t post technical stuff on my Lustratus REPAMA blog More >