Average word length |
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5.1651 |
word length | percentage |
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1 | 17.3077 |
2 | 15.3846 |
3 | 9.6154 |
4 | 16.3462 |
5 | 9.6154 |
6 | 7.6923 |
7 | 4.8077 |
8 | 4.8077 |
9 | 5.7692 |
10 | 2.8846 |
11 | 1.9231 |
12 | 2.8846 |
13 | 1.9231 |
15 | 0.9615 |
17 | 0.9615 |
21 | 1.9231 |
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