Corpora: PoS frequencies

[Sebastian Hoffmann]

At 4:48 PM +0100 5/23/01, jre at comp.leeds.ac.uk wrote:
>Greetings list members
>
>Has anyone seen or derived a PoS-tag frequency list from the full BNC?
>I have seen quite a few statistics on the BNC but not the above.  I assume
>there probably is one somewhere.  If not, i will derive them and post results.
>
>Of course, it is possible that the data has been staring me in the
>face all along
>and I just havn't noticed it :)
>
>Cheers,
>
>John


Hello John,
Here's a frequency list of the POS tags in the whole BNC - it's based
on the new world edition. I can also provide the same for BNC1 if you
need it.
Best,
Sebastian

NN1	14274585
PUN	11092783
AT0	8663481
PRP	7842812
AJ0	6353313
NN2	5217109
PNP	4977522
AV0	4599338
NP0	3848339
CJC	3452089
PRF	2886608
VVI	2413119
DT0	2250472
VVN	2020646
VVD	1870405
CRD	1844925
PUQ	1665862
TO0	1604608
VM0	1435280
DPS	1402899
VBZ	1298077
CJS	1262138
VVG	1212317
VVB	1197073
VBD	1196462
XX0	771213
VVZ	714013
AVP	656794
VBI	645066
DTQ	640959
VBB	639622
CJT	632291
NN0	536042
NN1-VVB	530661
POS	494217
PUR	434210
PUL	427975
VHD	423845
AJ0-NN1	422503
UNC	410790
ITJ	376728
NP0-NN1	348481
VHB	347918
ORD	336127
PNI	296373
VHZ	286142
VBN	260364
PRP-AVP	246302
EX0	246264
AVQ	243315
NN1-AJ0	239907
VVB-NN1	219188
PNQ	214021
VVN-VVD	207062
VHI	202033
AJC	196473
VDB	193393
VVD-VVN	191147
ZZ0	161211
NN1-NP0	157107
VDD	135968
PNX	132624
VVG-AJ0	118635
VVN-AJ0	112518
VVG-NN1	108225
NN2-VVZ	106436
AVP-PRP	99800
AJS	91616
VBG	84362
CJT-DT0	81909
VDI	80679
AV0-AJ0	79817
NN1-VVG	76634
VDZ	67751
AJ0-AV0	67209
DT0-CJT	54924
VVZ-NN2	54406
AJ0-VVG	51927
AJ0-VVN	51381
PRP-CJS	50782
CJS-AVQ	47869
CJS-PRP	45910
VDN	34326
VHG	34314
AJ0-VVD	28008
VDG	27190
VHN	25999
PNI-CRD	21996
AVQ-CJS	20370
VVD-AJ0	16408
CRD-PNI	4818

Total number of POS-tags: 111,246,830
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Sebastian Hoffmann
Department of English
University of Zurich
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phone (private): +41-1-341 6155