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.

Requires: pos

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.