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type-token ratios

type-token ratios is the plural of type-token ratio.

Meaning of type-token ratio

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

Questions about type-token ratios

What is type-token ratios the plural of?
Type-token ratios is the plural of type-token ratio.

Words near type-token ratios in the dictionary

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

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