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:
- Pick at least 3 pairs of terms to track through this interface. (3-5 pages, no citations)
- Track only one term over 300 years of publication with one example of usage for every 30 years. (3-5 pages, citations)
- 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)