LDE Lexical density
Definition
Proportion of content words (nouns, lexical verbs, adjectives, adverbs) to total words. Higher = more content-dense.
Detection Rules
Lexical density. Content words (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs) as proportion of all words.
Normalization
Per words
Sources
- mfte — Le Foll, Elen & Shakir, Muhammad (2023/2025) : Multi-Feature Tagger of English (MFTE) — Python version
Notes
Not one of Biber’s original 67 but a standard text property measure.