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type-token ratio

type-token ratio noun: the ratio of the number of different words (types) occurring in a text or corpus to the overall number of words (tokens) in the same text or corpus.

Noun

type-token ratio (plural type-token ratios)

  1. (corpus linguistics) The ratio of the number of different words (types) occurring in a text or corpus to the overall number of words (tokens) in the same text or corpus.
    • We identify vocabulary richness by using a well-established measure of textual, lexical diversity (MTLD) which is often used in the field of automated essay grading. It takes into account the number of unique words but unlike the best-known measure of lexical diversity, the type-token ratio (TTR)...2023 October 30, Herbold et al., “A large-scale comparison of human-written versus ChatGPT-generated essays”, in Scientific Reports, volume 13, page 5

Forms of type-token ratio

pluraltype-token ratios
alternative formTTR

Questions about type-token ratio

What does type-token ratio mean?
Type-token ratio means the ratio of the number of different words (types) occurring in a text or corpus to the overall number of words (tokens) in the same text or corpus.
What part of speech is type-token ratio?
Type-token ratio is a noun.
What is the plural of type-token ratio?
The plural of type-token ratio is type-token ratios.

Words near type-token ratio in the dictionary

  1. type-shifting
  2. type-site
  3. type-sites
  4. type-token distinction
  5. type-token distinctions
  6. type-token ratio
  7. type-token ratios
  8. type-word
  9. type-words
  10. type-writer
  11. typeabilities

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