Average word length |
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8.6538 |
word length | percentage |
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1 | 0.2029 |
2 | 1.3670 |
3 | 4.0446 |
4 | 6.7421 |
5 | 9.4628 |
6 | 11.0760 |
7 | 11.7113 |
8 | 10.7401 |
9 | 9.4728 |
10 | 8.4816 |
11 | 6.9383 |
12 | 5.4914 |
13 | 4.1078 |
14 | 3.5822 |
15 | 2.7341 |
16 | 2.0422 |
17 | 1.6431 |
18 | 1.1276 |
19 | 0.7750 |
20 | 0.5422 |
21 | 0.4291 |
22 | 0.2860 |
23 | 0.1530 |
24 | 0.1098 |
25 | 0.0466 |
26 | 0.0665 |
27 | 0.0399 |
28 | 0.0200 |
29 | 0.0133 |
30 | 0.0166 |
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