Average word length |
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6.0920 |
word length | percentage |
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1 | 0.9028 |
2 | 4.3056 |
3 | 6.8981 |
4 | 18.6574 |
5 | 15.1852 |
6 | 18.0093 |
7 | 11.2731 |
8 | 9.2361 |
9 | 5.7870 |
10 | 3.8889 |
11 | 2.7083 |
12 | 1.7361 |
13 | 1.0417 |
14 | 0.7176 |
15 | 0.3009 |
16 | 0.2315 |
17 | 0.2315 |
18 | 0.1157 |
19 | 0.0463 |
22 | 0.0231 |
23 | 0.0463 |
24 | 0.0231 |
29 | 0.0231 |
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