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Lexical Density
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Lexical density measures the structure and complexity of a given text. Lexical density estimates the linguistic complexity in a composition from the functional words (grammatical units) and content words (lexical units). We use Ure formula that calculates the lexical density by computing the ratio of lexical items to the total number of words.
What are common Lexical Density of various Texts?
- Spoken forms typically have lexical densities below 40%
- Written forms in the English language typically have lexical densities above 40%
- Fictional literature ranged between 40% and 54% (survey by Michael Stubbs)
- Non-fictional literature ranged between 40% and 64% (survey by Michael Stubbs)
- Our survey of 100 Wikipedia articles ranged between 54% and 59%