Vocabulary Richness Measure in Genres
Miroslav Kubát, Jiří Milička · Journal of Quantitative Linguistics · 2013
This article deals with the one of the oldest and most traditional fields in quantitative linguistics, the concept of vocabulary richness. Although there are several methods for vocabulary richness measurement, all of them are influenced by text size. Therefore, the authors propose a new way of vocabulary richness measurement without any text length dependence. In the second part of the article, the new method is used for a genre analysis in texts written by the Czech writer Karel Čapek. Furthermore, differences between authors and between languages are studied with this method.