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Lexical density and diversity in dissertation abstracts: Revisiting English L1 vs. L2 text differences

Maryam Nasseri, Paul Thompson

2021Assessing Writing61 citationsDOI

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Lexical diversityLexical densityOptimal distinctiveness theoryLinguisticsComputer sciencePsychologyNatural language processingLexical itemConstruct (python library)Diversity (politics)Academic writingSecond language writingMathematics educationSociologySecond languageVocabularySocial psychologyPhilosophyProgramming languageAnthropologyText Readability and SimplificationSecond Language Acquisition and LearningNatural Language Processing Techniques