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The Relationship of Word Length and Sentence Length: The Inter-Textual Perspective

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The present study concentrates on the relation between sentence length (SL) and word length (WL) as a possible factor in text classification. The dependence of WL and SL is discussed in terms of general system theory and synergetics; the results achieved thus are relevant not only for linguistic studies of text classification, but for the study of other complex systems, as well.

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  • Word Length
  • Power Model
  • Text Type
  • Sentence Length
  • Text Corpus

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department for Slavic Studies, University Graz, A-8010, Graz, Austria

    Peter Grzybek & Emmerich Kelih

  2. Institute Statistics, Graz University of Technology, A-8010, Graz, Austria

    Ernst Stadlober

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  1. Department of Business Administration and Economics, Bielefeld University, Universitätsstr. 25, 33501, Bielefeld, Germany

    Professor Dr. Reinhold Decker

  2. Department of Economics, Freie Universität Berlin, Garystraße 21, 14195, Berlin, Germany

    Professor Dr. Hans -J. Lenz

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Grzybek, P., Stadlober, E., Kelih, E. (2007). The Relationship of Word Length and Sentence Length: The Inter-Textual Perspective. In: Decker, R., Lenz, H.J. (eds) Advances in Data Analysis. Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70981-7_70

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