LINGUIST List 22.488
Thu Jan 27 2011
Media: Culturomics article in 'Science' Journal
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Culturomics article in 'Science' Journal
Message 1: Culturomics article in 'Science' Journal
Date: 22-Jan-2011
From: Paul Chapin <pgchapingmail.com>
Subject: Culturomics article in 'Science' Journal
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An interesting article on corpus linguistics by Jean-Baptiste Michel and 13 co-authors appears in the January 14, 2011 issue of Science, the Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Entitled 'Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books', the article contains a set of exercises in 'Culturomics', which is the area of research that utilizes the Google corpus of over five million digitized books. Two of the studies are linguistic in nature and involve the size of the English lexicon and the evolution of English irregular verbs.
The journal is available in nearly all research libraries and many general libraries in the US. Members of the AAAS can read the article online at:
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/331/6014/176.full
Non-members may also access the article through free registration as guests.
Linguistic Field(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics
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