22.488, Media: Culturomics article in 'Science' Journal

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Subject: 22.488, Media: Culturomics article in 'Science' Journal

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Date: 22-Jan-2011
From: Paul Chapin [pgchapin at gmail.com]
Subject: Culturomics article in 'Science' Journal
 

	
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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:59:01
From: Paul Chapin [pgchapin at gmail.com]
Subject: Culturomics article in 'Science' Journal

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An interesting article on corpus linguistics by Jean-Baptiste Michel and 13
co-authors in the January 14, 2011 issue of Science, the Journal of American
Association for the Advancement of Science. Entitled 'Quantitative Analysis of
Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books', the article contains a set of
exercises in 'Culturomics', which is the area of research that utilizes the
Google corpus of over five million digitized books. Two of the studies are
linguistic in nsture and involve the size of the English lexicon and the
evolution of English irregular verbs.

The journal is available in nearly all research libraries and many general
libraries in the US. Members of AAAS can read the article on-line at:

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/331/6014/176.full

Non-members may also access the article through free registration as guests. 


Linguistic Field(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics





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