[Corpora-List] K-something replacing TTR

[Georgios Mikros]

Hi Cédric,
Yule's K is supposed to be an index of lexical "richness" or diversity which
does not present the notorious text size bias evident in TTR measurements
(Tweedie & Baayen 1998).  I have created a perl script which calculates this
and some other stylometric indices. If you are interested send me an email.
Best
George Mikros

Tweedie, Fiona J., & Baayen, Harald R. (1998). How variable may a constant
be? Measures of lexical richness in perspective. Computers and the
Humanities, 32(5), 323-352




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From: corpora-bounces at uib.no [mailto:corpora-bounces at uib.no] On Behalf Of
Cedric Krummes
Sent: Monday, 23 September, 2013 12:42 PM
To: Corpora at uib.no
Subject: [Corpora-List] K-something replacing TTR

Dear colleagues,

I've been told/advised/suggested to consider replacing the good old TTR with
another value. K-value? K-mean?

Apparently there's a software (maybe a concordancer) that gives you this
value.

Does anybody know more about this? And is there a way to calculate it
without a specific software?

Thanks in advance for keeping it short and simple,

Cedric
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Dr. Cédric Krummes
"SMS Communication in Switzerland"

Universität Leipzig · +49-341-97-37404
http://www.cedrickrummes.org/contact/

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