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Digital humanities

Yule's measure of vocabulary richness based on the repetition rate of words, designed to be largely independent of text length.

In digital humanities, Yule's K refers to yule's measure of vocabulary richness based on the repetition rate of words, designed to be largely independent of text length. This meaning comes from Yule (1944) in The statistical study of literary vocabulary.[1]

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References

Yule, G. U. (1944). The statistical study of literary vocabulary. Archon Books. ISBN 9780208006899

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