Average word length |
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9.4052 |
word length | percentage |
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1 | 0.1274 |
2 | 0.5939 |
3 | 2.3592 |
4 | 5.0812 |
5 | 7.6440 |
6 | 9.0347 |
7 | 10.3182 |
8 | 10.6087 |
9 | 10.7089 |
10 | 9.6319 |
11 | 8.0191 |
12 | 6.4557 |
13 | 4.9670 |
14 | 3.8731 |
15 | 2.9033 |
16 | 2.1713 |
17 | 1.5679 |
18 | 1.1462 |
19 | 0.9010 |
20 | 0.5803 |
21 | 0.4052 |
22 | 0.2807 |
23 | 0.2048 |
24 | 0.1232 |
25 | 0.0882 |
26 | 0.0676 |
27 | 0.0363 |
28 | 0.0359 |
29 | 0.0264 |
30 | 0.0148 |
In this subsection we ignore the fact that words have different frequencies. So for the average word length, each word is considered equally. For a fixed word length, we count the number of different words having this length.
The plot of the word length against the number of words of this length usually has a clear maximum between 10 and 15. Moreover, with a logarithmic scale of the y-axis, we get a nearly linear part between length 15 and 40.
Average word length is one of the classic parameters for a language.
Counting without multiplicity makes average word length depending on the corpus size. A larger corpus contains more words, and the additional words are usually longer. Hence, average word length should increase with corpus size.
Average word length:
select avg(char_length(word)) from words where w_id>100;;
Data for large table:
SELECT @all:=count(*) from words where w_id>100;
select char_length(word), 100*count(*)/@all from words where w_id>100 group by char_length;
Do we have the linear part between 15 and 40 for (nearly) all languages?
Where does it come from?
Calculate and compare the slope!
3.5.1.2 Words by Length with multiplicity