Media: Culturomics - A Google Application for Studying Language
| Submitter: |
Mark Davies
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| Submitter Email: | mark_davies@byu.edu |
| Linguistic Field(s): |
Computational Linguistics Historical Linguistics Text/Corpus Linguistics Lexicography |
| Media Body: |
'Culturomics' (http://www.culturomics.org) and the new Google Books interface (http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/) have been widely featured in newspapers and magazines for the last day or two (see http://www.culturomics.org/cultural-observatory-at-harvard/papers). The resource allows you to search 500 billion words of text to see changes in the frequency of words and phrases, and thus changes in American society, culture, and (presumably) language as well. We have created a page (http://corpus.byu.edu/coha/compare-culturomics.asp) that compares Google Books / Culturomics to the new 400 million word, NEH-funded Corpus of Historical American English [COHA] (http://corpus.byu.edu/coha/). It discusses how Google Books is nice for exact words and phrases; but of the two, COHA is the only tool that really allows you to look at a wide range of changes - lexical, morphological, syntactic, and semantic. |
| Issue Number: | 21.5147 |
| Date Posted: | December 18, 2010 |
