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The Coleman–Liau index is a readability test designed by Meri Coleman and T. L. Liau to gauge the understandability of a text. Like the Flesch–Kincaid Grade Level, Gunning fog index, SMOG index, and Automated Readability Index, its output approximates the U.S. grade level thought necessary to comprehend the text.
is the number of words, B {\displaystyle B} is the number of periods (defined by period, colon or capital first letter), and C {\displaystyle C} is the number of long words (more than 6 letters).
Lexical diversity is one aspect of 'lexical richness' and refers to the ratio of different unique word stems (types) to the total number of words ().The term is used in applied linguistics and is quantitatively calculated using numerous different measures including Type-Token Ratio (TTR), vocd, [1] and the measure of textual lexical diversity (MTLD).
The melakarta ragas of the Carnatic music are named so that the first two syllables of the name will give its number. This system is sometimes called the Ka-ta-pa-ya-di sankhya. The Swaras 'Sa' and 'Pa' are fixed, and here is how to get the other swaras from the melakarta number. Melakartas 1 through 36 have Ma1 and those from 37 through 72 ...
N is the number of words in the reference (N=S+D+C) The intuition behind 'deletion' and 'insertion' is how to get from the reference to the hypothesis. So if we have ...
In short, the number of words in a dictionary can't be used as a proxy for the number of words in a language (even if such a thing exists). I'm open to suggestions for a more precise alternative title. Uanfala 13:50, 13 August 2016 (UTC) I second the nominator's concerns. — AjaxSmack 20:59, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
A rendition of the Fry graph. The Fry readability formula (or Fry readability graph) is a readability metric for English texts, developed by Edward Fry. [1]The grade reading level (or reading difficulty level) is calculated by the average number of sentences (y-axis) and syllables (x-axis) per hundred words.
A plot of the frequency of each word as a function of its frequency rank for two English language texts: Culpeper's Complete Herbal (1652) and H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds (1898) in a log-log scale. The dotted line is the ideal law .