Average word length |
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7.5931 |
word length | percentage |
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1 | 0.1715 |
2 | 1.1376 |
3 | 3.4670 |
4 | 7.6628 |
5 | 11.4785 |
6 | 15.3686 |
7 | 14.7340 |
8 | 12.6104 |
9 | 10.4696 |
10 | 7.7114 |
11 | 5.8479 |
12 | 3.6013 |
13 | 2.4523 |
14 | 1.5234 |
15 | 0.8232 |
16 | 0.5345 |
17 | 0.3030 |
18 | 0.1572 |
19 | 0.1000 |
20 | 0.0600 |
21 | 0.0372 |
22 | 0.0057 |
23 | 0.0057 |
24 | 0.0029 |
25 | 0.0171 |
27 | 0.0029 |
28 | 0.0057 |
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