Automaatika referaat (eng)
and linking proxes. An example of a simple prox is essay length. The empirical evidence
suggests that the longer an essay is, the more highly valued it is by a rater. This could be
because the writer provides additional details which improves the essay's standing in the
eyes of the grader. However, this relationship is not linear, but logarithmic.More
specifically, it appears as if essay length is important up to a point, but beyond a certain
theshold it carries little additional weight.
Though this counting method is
admittedly superficial, it is an indicator of sentence complexity, and is also tied
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conceptually to the intrinsic characteristic of style. It is useful to note that this one prox is
joined with a number of others to estimate the trin, and would not normally be used as a
single indicator for the trait.