Introduction

PONK is an on-line tool and REST API service for analyzing readability of Czech legal texts. Taking a text as input (e.g., a letter sent by a legal authority to a citizen), it runs external services for dependency parsing and named entity recognition and then identifies and highlights low-readability parts in the text.

The software is available under the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA licence.

Copyright 2024 by Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Czech Republic.

Description of the available methods is available in the API Documentation.

Online Web Application and Web Service

PONK Web Application is available at http://quest.ms.mff.cuni.cz/ponk/.

PONK REST Web Service is also available, with the API documentation available at http://quest.ms.mff.cuni.cz/ponk/api-reference.php.

PONK User's Manual

PONK User's Manual is available on a separate page.

PONK API Reference

PONK API Reference is available on a separate page.

Contact

Authors:

• Jiří Mírovský, mirovsky@ufal.mff.cuni.cz
• Silvie Cinková, cinkova@ufal.mff.cuni.cz
• Barbora Hladká, hladka@ufal.mff.cuni.cz
• Plus the authors of the subapplications, to be mentioned...

Acknowledgements

The development of PONK was financed by the TAČR SIGMA project TQ01000526: PONK - Asistent přístupné úřední komunikace.

PONK uses external services for its work:

• UDPipe (https://lindat.mff.cuni.cz/services/udpipe/)
• NameTag (http://lindat.mff.cuni.cz/services/nametag/)

This work has been using language resources developed, stored or distributed by the LINDAT/CLARIAH-CZ project of the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic (project LM2023062).