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<img src="inst/formality_logo/r_formality.png" width="300" alt="tagger Logo">


**formality** utilizes the [**tagger**](https://github.com/trinker/tagger) package to conduct formality analysis. Heylighen (1999) and Heylighen & Dewaele (2002, 1999) have given the *F-measure* as a measure of how *contextual* or *formal* language is. Language is considered formal when it contains much of the information directly in the text, whereas, contextual language relies on shared experiences to more efficiently dialogue with others.
**formality** utilizes the [**tagger**](https://github.com/trinker/tagger) package to conduct formality analysis. Heylighen (1999) and Heylighen & Dewaele (2002, 1999) have given the *F-measure* as a measure of how *contextual* or *formal* language is. Language is considered more formal when it contains much of the information directly in the text, whereas, contextual language relies on shared experiences to more efficiently dialogue with others.

The **formality** package's main function is also titled `formality` and uses Heylighen & Dewaele's (1999) *F-measure*. The *F-measure* is defined formally as:

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$$N = n_f + n_c$$


This yields an *F-measure* between $0$ and $100$%, with completely contextualizes language on the zero end and completely formal language on the $100$ end.
This yields an *F-measure* between $0$ and $100$%, with completely contextualized language on the zero end and completely formal language on the $100$ end.

Please see the following references for more details about formality and the *F-measure*:

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[**tagger**](https://github.com/trinker/tagger) package to conduct
formality analysis. Heylighen (1999) and Heylighen & Dewaele (2002,
1999) have given the *F-measure* as a measure of how *contextual* or
*formal* language is. Language is considered formal when it contains
*formal* language is. Language is considered more formal when it contains
much of the information directly in the text, whereas, contextual
language relies on shared experiences to more efficiently dialogue with
others.
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*N* = *n*<sub>*f*</sub> + *n*<sub>*c*</sub>

This yields an *F-measure* between 0 and 100%, with completely
contextualizes language on the zero end and completely formal language
contextualized language on the zero end and completely formal language
on the 100 end.

Please see the following references for more details about formality and
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