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. 2024 Sep 13;35(3):1178–1217. doi: 10.1007/s40593-024-00426-w

Table 2.

Feature Types with Examples from the Feature Set

Feature type Number of features Example features
Length features 15

Number of words

Number of paragraphs

Number of sentences

Occurrence features 30

Number of nouns

Number of formal words

Number of unique nouns

Error features 9

Error ratio

Grammar error ratio

Punctuation error ratio

Morphological complexity features 11

Number of finite verbs

Number of non-third person singular verb

Ratio of comparatives

Cohesion features 8

Number of connectors

Number of unique connectors

Mean noun overlap with previous sentence

Readability features 15

Flesch score

Integration cost

Average number of sentences per 100 words

Lexical diversity features 59

Type-token ratio

Type-token ratio lexical words

Global edit distance

Lexical sophistication features 62

BNC easy word ratio

SUBLEX easy word ratio

Brown Frequencies lexical word ratio

Syntactic complexity features 6

Number of subordinate clauses

Number of fragment sentences

Mean tokens before main verb