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<br /></br><hr /><b>Recursos lingüísticos: </b><br />The Google
Labs N-gram Viewer<br /><b>URL:</b> <a
href="http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/"
target="_blank">http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/</a><br /><b>Información
de:</b> Infoling List <infoling@infoling.org><br /><hr /><br
/><b>Descripción</b><br /><p> The Google Labs N-gram Viewer is
the first tool of its kind, capable of precisely and rapidly
quantifying cultural trends based on massive quantities of data. It is
a gateway to culturomics! The browser is designed to enable you to
examine the frequency of words (banana) or phrases ('United States of
America') in books over time. You'll be searching through over 5.2
million books: ~4% of all books ever published! <br /><br />There are
lots of different things you can check, like your favorite word
(Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious) or person (President Taft; Chief
Justice Taft) or part of the holiday (Christmas Tree). <br /><br />It
can be fun to compare things, too; whether it's people (Galileo,
Darwin, Freud, Einstein), pieces of music (Beethoven's First,
Beethoven's Second, Beethoven's Third, Beethoven's Fourth, Beethoven's
Fifth, Beethoven's Sixth, Beethoven's Seventh, Beethoven's Eighth,
Beethoven's Ninth), facts about grammar (sneaked, snuck), or
increasingly precise values for the speed of light ('2.99796,
2.997925, 2.99792458'). <br /><br />The browser allows you to search
different collections of books (called 'corpora'). You'll definitely
want to try taking advantage of more than one corpus. For instance,
compare 'centre, center' in both American and British English. Corpora
are available in English, Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Russian,
and SPANISH, so you can examine effects in many different cultures and
compare them to one another ('feminism' in English vs. 'féminisme' in
French, for instance.) If you look carefully, you can occasionally see
evidence of censorship (such as 'Marc Chagall' in the German corpus
under the Nazis.)<br /><br />But even with all that data, you'll need
to carefully interpret your results. Some effects are due to changes
in the language we use to describe things ('The Great War' vs. 'World
War I'). Others are due to actual changes in what interests us (note
how 'slavery' peaks during the Civil War and during the Civil Rights
movement.)<br /><br />Watch out for the time period your are looking
into: the best data is the data for English between 1800 and 2000.
Before 1800, there aren’t enough books to reliably quantify many of
the queries that first come to mind; after 2000, the corpus
composition undergoes subtle changes around the time of the inception
of the Google Books project. The other corpora are smaller, and can't
be used to go as far back in time; their metadata has also not been
subjected to as much scrutiny as English in the bicentennial period.
<br /><br />Información de <a
href="http://www.culturomics.org/Resources/A-users-guide-to-culturomics"
target="_blank">http://www.culturomics.org/Resources/A-users-guide-to-culturomics</a><br
/>Más información: <a href="http://www.culturomics.org/"
target="_blank">http://www.culturomics.org/</a></p><br /><b>Área
temática:</b> Lexicografía, Lexicología, Lingüística de corpus,
Lingüística histórica<br /><br /><b>Información en la web de
Infoling:</b><br /> <a
href="http://www.infoling.org/informacion/RecursoL28.html"
target="_blank">
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