LINGUIST List 21.5147 Sun Dec 19 2010 Media: Culturomics - A Google Application for Studying Language Editor for this issue: Mfon Udoinyang <mfonlinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.     Mark Davies , Culturomics - A Google Application for Studying Language Message 1: Culturomics - A Google Application for Studying Language Date: 18-Dec-2010 From: Mark Davies <mark_daviesbyu.edu> Subject: Culturomics - A Google Application for Studying Language E-mail this message to a friend '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. Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics                             Historical Linguistics                             Lexicography                             Text/Corpus Linguistics New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 19-Dec-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.