[Corpora-List] K-something replacing TTR

[Tanja Säily]

Hi all,

Another way is to calculate TTR for a specific window size and use a sliding window to process the entire text/corpus. Our free software, Text Variation Explorer, does this (among other things) visually: http://www.uta.fi/sis/tauchi/virg/projects/dammoc/tve.html

Best wishes,
Tanja Säily

On 2013-09-26, at 12:09, Georgios Mikros <gmikros at isll.uoa.gr> wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 
> .
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 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
> --
> Dr. Cédric Krummes
> "SMS Communication in Switzerland"
> 
> Universität Leipzig · +49-341-97-37404
> http://www.cedrickrummes.org/contact/
> 
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