Estimating an author’s vocabulary

The Endeavour 2024-03-08

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How would you estimate the size of an author’s vocabulary? Suppose you have a analyzed the author’s available works and found n words, x of which are unique. Then you know the author’s vocabulary was at least x, but it’s reasonable to assume that the author may have know words he never used in writing, […]

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03/08/2024, 02:02

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03/07/2024, 22:07