Additional features of the tool include:
- you can adapt texts directly in the online interface and immediately see the effect of your edits on the % of high frequency words contained in the text;
- it provides information about the lexical density of texts (how many ‘different’ words are used out of the ‘total’ number of individual words used);
- you can retrieve the words that are deemed to belong to each ‘word family’ on the lists.
NCELP will add profiling at the 5,000 word frequency level in the coming months.
With further investment in the tool, it would be possible to adapt it so that it can check a text against other word lists. For example, a word list for a GCSE examination board could in theory be added so that texts could be checked for their compatibility with words on that list and then edited if necessary to make them more compatible with the word list.