18.2686, Qs: English Type Frequencies by POS

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Subject: 18.2686, Qs: English Type Frequencies by POS

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Date: 12-Sep-2007
From: Richard Hudson < dick at ling.ucl.ac.uk >
Subject: English Type Frequencies by POS

 

	
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From: Richard Hudson [dick at ling.ucl.ac.uk]
Subject: English Type Frequencies by POS
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Does anyone know where I can find the proportion of English lemmas that are
nouns? 

More precisely, I'm looking for figures for lemmas in some large dictionary
or corpus classified by word class (aka part of speech), and if possible
also by token frequency; so ideally I'd like a table which shows nouns (and
maybe other word classes) as a percentage of the lemmas in a given
frequency range. My assumption is that the percentage of nouns in rare
vocabulary is higher than in common vocabulary, but I'd like to know
whether this is true. 

If I learn anything significant I'll summarise back to the list.

Dick Hudson  (dick at ling.ucl.ac.uk) 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics





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