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Do classic text statistics still matter in the age of LLMs?

I've been working on readability formulas, lexical diversity metrics and stylometry for Russian and Spanish texts for a while, and lately I keep asking myself whether this whole area still makes sense Today you can paste a text into an LLM and ask "how readable is this?" or "who's the likely author…

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  1. 2026-10-09 03:23 · r/learnmachinelearning
    Do classic text statistics still matter in the age of LLMs?
  2. 2026-10-09 03:22 · r/LanguageTechnology
    Do classic text statistics still matter in the age of LLMs?

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