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There are also English texts without THE (lists of products,
election results etc.) so the computation either way would need to
avoid dividing by zero...<br>
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What a useful discussion. Clarified a particularly cluttered and
dusty corner of my own thinking.<br>
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Cheers -- Mike<br>
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On 13/09/2011 19:19, Rich Cooper wrote:
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue">Using “the/I” can
lead to
infinite values in corpora (scientific lit, patents) that
never use the pronoun
“I”. It might be better practice to use the inverse, i.e.
the
“I/the” ration, which would be 0.0 for such corpora. </span></font></p>
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