[Corpora-List] Looglefight

[george dillon]

Dear Adam--
Thanks--it may actually be useful!  googlefight says  depends of  is as
frequent as depends on, but looglefight gets it right for ACL and some
other domains.  For what domain is depends of  the preferred form?   

And again, if one is wrestling with the choice between  the current
study and the present study,  looglefight gives clear guidance (the
latter over the former, ~2:1) which would rescue the poor writer from
googlefight's contrary indication (current>present 3:1).

But what we really need is some way to tell the uncertain writer that
current/present is a thing indifferent  (for ACL and much elsewhere) and
just to get on with it, but depends of is stigma bearing.

Cheers!
--gd


On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 15:25 +0100, Adam Kilgarriff wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> 
> 
> Have you ever been writing an NLP paper and been unsure about the
> usual turn of phrase for something, in the NLP literature?  Now you
> can ask - at http://looglefight.com - and be answered!  
> 
> 
> Looglefight is a web app that lets you input two alternative
> phrasings, and finds their frequencies in the NLP literature, as
> represented by the ACL Anthology Reference Corpus (ARC; 45m words of
> texts drawn from the ACL Anthology; http://acl-arc.comp.nus.edu.sg/).
>  The ARC have been loaded into the Sketch Engine, which provides the
> indexing etc.  You are also free to explore the ARC on the 'Open
> Sketch Engine' site (http://sketchengine.co.uk/open).
> 
> 
> -- 
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