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December 28, 2010

Trending Terms in Google’s Book Corpus – Post

Filed under: Corpus Linguistics,Usage — Patrick Durusau @ 8:40 am

Trending Terms in Google’s Book Corpus

Matthew Hurst covers an interesting new tool at Google Book Corpus that allows tracking of terms over time.

Questions:

  1. Pick at least 3 pairs of terms to track through this interface. (3-5 pages, no citations)
  2. Track only one term over 300 years of publication with one example of usage for every 30 years. (3-5 pages, citations)
  3. What similarity measures would you use to detect variation in the semantic of that term in a corpus covering 300 years? (3-5 pages, citations)

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