Assessing writing with the tool for the automatic analysis of lexical sophistication (TAALES)

Tool for the Automatic Analysis of Lexical Sophistication (TAALES). To calculate a wide range of classic and newly developed indices of lexical sophistication (e.g., frequency, range, academic register, concreteness and familiarity, psycholinguistic word properties, and semantic network norms). Lexical sophistication features are strong predictors of writing quality in both first language (L1) and second language (L2) contexts. Inspired by...