<div dir="ltr">Dear Mark, <div><br></div><div>Thanks a lot for the pointers, great work. I really liked the "gay" example, it seems that during the 19th century gay had sort of religious connotations, not least within the phrase "gay family". Things change. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Any chance of putting up more languages? I assume you focus mostly on English (and some Spanish). </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks again, </div><div>Noam Ordan </div><div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br>
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From: Mark Davies <<a href="mailto:Mark_Davies@byu.edu">Mark_Davies@byu.edu</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] Google Ngrams tool?<br>
To: Noam Ordan <<a href="mailto:noam.ordan@gmail.com">noam.ordan@gmail.com</a>>, "<a href="mailto:corpora@uib.no">corpora@uib.no</a>"<br>
<<a href="mailto:corpora@uib.no">corpora@uib.no</a>><br>
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>> Does anyone know of a tool, preferably a software package, which deals with Google ngrams taking dates into account? Goolge Ngram Viewer shows trends but does not allow for an analysis of, say, collocations of a certain word during a certain time-frame.<br>
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<a href="http://googlebooks.byu.edu/" target="_blank">http://googlebooks.byu.edu/</a><br>
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This does collocates, and you can see the collocates in each time period. e.g.:<br>
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<a href="http://googlebooks.byu.edu/?b=x4&c=us&q=10283408" target="_blank">http://googlebooks.byu.edu/?b=x4&c=us&q=10283408</a><br>
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and even compare the collocates in two different periods, e.g.:<br>
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<a href="http://googlebooks.byu.edu/?b=x4&c=us&q=10283420" target="_blank">http://googlebooks.byu.edu/?b=x4&c=us&q=10283420</a><br>
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>> Also, any pointer to a publication by historians who utilized this resource (other than anecdotal examples in "culturomics" publications) would be much appreciated.<br>
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See <a href="http://googlebooks.byu.edu/compare-googleBooks.asp#x6" target="_blank">http://googlebooks.byu.edu/compare-googleBooks.asp#x6</a><br>
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These are some "starter" examples of what can be done with the interface. In the next two weeks I'll be sending off a paper to a journal, which provides lots of culture-oriented searches from the Advanced/BYU Google Books interface.<br>
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MD<br>
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** Corpus design and use // Linguistic databases **<br>
** Historical linguistics // Language variation **<br>
** English, Spanish, and Portuguese **<br>
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