Modern Diachronic Corpora

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publishes. The ICAME consists of 20 corpora. The Brown Corpus of Standard American English compiled by Henry Kucera and W.Nelson Francis at Brown University, Providence, RI published in 1967 one of the first machine-readable corpora consists of 1,014,312 words (500 samples of 15 genres; proportional to the publications in 1961; written by native speakers) Brown Corpus has spawned similar structured corpora (Kolhapur, Wellington, ACE) Sampling technique: Random selection of titles from bibliographical sources Random selection of section of text (2,000 +x words for each sample) 6 versions original version stripped version tagged* version Bergen Form I + II Brown-Marc Form [*Tagging: each word is being assigned a special tag indicating word-class or syntactical function] Rank vs...
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frequency relationship (“Zipf`s law”) the frequency of any word is roughly inversely proportional to its rank in the frequency table graphing words in order of decreasing frequency of occurence shows a hyperbola „the“ nearly 7% of corpus; „of“ nearly 3% fo corpus half of the vocabulary only occur once in entire corpus/135 word make up half of the corpus American Heritage Dictionary (1969) based on Brown corpus (first dictionary based on corpus linguistics) LOB Corpus (Lancaster-Oslo/Bergen Corpus) Compiled by Stig Johansson and Geoffrey N...
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