--add_fleschkincaid

Switch

--add_fleschkincaid

Description

Adds a Flesch-Kincaid grade-level readability score feature table, one score per group. Aliased as --add_fkscore.

Argument and Default Value

No argument. Boolean switch, default: False. Requires the textstat package (pip install textstat) — without it, DLATK prints Cannot import textstat (cannot use addFleschKincaidTable) and the feature values are never computed.

Details

Verified table naming: creates feat$flkin$<corptable>$<correl_field>.

Known issue — broken in SQLite mode. FeatureExtractor.addFleschKincaidTable() calls mm.disableTableKeys(...) directly (same pattern as --add_char_ngrams) before inserting rows. Verified: the destination table is created but stays empty, then the run fails with sqlite3.OperationalError: near "DISABLE": syntax error. Works against MySQL (with textstat installed).

Other Switches

Required Switches:

• -d, -g, -t

Example Commands

Requires MySQL and textstat — broken against SQLite, see Known issue above:

dlatkInterface.py -d dla_tutorial -t msgs -c user_id --add_fleschkincaid