Exploring the Google Books Corpus: An Information-Theoretic Approach to Linguistic Evolution

The Google Books corpus contains millions of books in a variety of languages. Due to this incredible volume and its free availability, it is a treasure trove that has inspired a plethora of linguistic research. It is tempting to treat frequency trends from Google Books data sets as indicators for th...

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Main Author: Pechenick, Eitan
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: ScholarWorks @ UVM 2015
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Online Access:http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/525
http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1524&context=graddis