TextDescriptives: A Python package for calculating a large variety of metrics from text

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TextDescriptives is a Python package for calculating a large variety of metrics from text.

• It is built on top of spaCy and can be easily integrated into existing workflows.
• The package has already been used for analysing the linguistic stability of clinical texts, creating features for predicting neuropsychiatric conditions, and analysing linguistic goals of primary school students.
• This paper describes the package and its features.