distantreading

Trying out Haskell by writing some digital humanities text analysis tools.

Requirements

• Haskell Stack

Setup

Clone the repo, then run:

stack build
stack install

This will create distantreading and distantreading-server executables.

Usage

Command line tool

Usage: distantreading --target TARGET [-s|--sentence]
Generate statistics about a text file
Available options:
--target TARGET Target file
-s,--sentence Get sentence stats instead of word stats
-h,--help Show this help text

Server

To start the app as a REST service, run:

distantreading-server

This will start the service on port 4444.