Helps you write better GRE/TOEFL essays by detecting your repeating phrases.
Introduction in English (英文介绍)
中文介绍 (Introduction in Chinese)
In order to run textVary, make sure you have installed Java on your computer. After unzipping the downloaded zip file, simply click the textVary.jar file to run the application.
To get statistics of phrase usage from the input:
- TextVary first parses the essay into a sequence of SentenceParts, each SentencePart is composed of many WordUsages
- A WordUsage contains information about a word's original form and position in the essay, as well as the stem of that word. The stem is used to match words and phrases in later stages.
- TextVary stores a collection of set phrases as a Finite State Automaton(FSA). The words in those phrases are reduced to their stem forms.
- To detect set phrases, textVary uses a greedy algorithm, trying to find the longest phrases accepted by the FSA. A set phrase can not span across the boundaries of SentenceParts.
To turn the statistics into visual feedback:
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The UI is implemented in a Reactive Programming (RP) style.
- (The current input ~> usage statistics) + UI input information ~> visual data ~> draw visual elements on top of the input
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As the frequency of a word or phrase increases, its background color varies from a translucent yellow to a transparent red. In this way, if a usage appears again and again in an essay, its highlight will eventually become unnoticeable. This is the desired behaviour because it helps the user focus on avoiding using the same expression twice or the third time, but ignore the repeating use of topic words or key words.
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