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. 2007 Sep-Oct;14(5):641–650. doi: 10.1197/jamia.M2392

Table 1.

Table 1 Descriptive Statistics of Human Annotated Corpora Used in Study

Wall Street Journal MEDLINE Abstracts Surgical Pathology Reports
Words 1,019,828 155,980 57,565
Word Types 37,408 14,785 3,339
Word Types per 100,000 words 3,668 9,478 5,800
Sentences 48,936 5,700 3,021
Average words per sentence 20.8 27.4 19.05
Average verb per sentence 3.1 2.7 1.05