Google's Ngram Viewer

[Vadim Besprozvanny]

It would be useful to get a data showing to what extent the books available
to Google represent the real picture. VB

On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 18:05:52 +0100, "R. M. Cleminson" <rmcleminson at POST.SK>
wrote:
> Unfortunately the tool does not take account of orthographical reform. 
The
> boom in срам after 1917 is matched by a corresponding decline in
> срамъ.
> 
> ----- Originálna správa -----
> Odosielateľ: "Anne Fisher" <anne.o.fisher at GMAIL.COM>
> Komu: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
> Dátum: sobota, december 18, 2010 11:19:29
> Predmet: Re: [SEELANGS] Google's Ngram Viewer
> 
> This is fascinating. Thank you, Steve. Interesting that срам (sram),
> according to this, seems to have boomed in popularity in the post-1917
> years... and oddly enough, шлюха (shliukha) - excuse me - seems to
> have been
> in 100% of the books around 1995? Any statisticians out there who can
give
> the background to these figures (i.e. how much we can rely on the graphs'
> alluring visuals)?
> 
> On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 6:26 AM, Steve Marder <asured at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
>> A new Google initiative may be of interest to some SEELANGS followers
and
>> researchers:
>>
>> In theory:
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/2wjc6p7
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/2dod469
>>
>>
>> In practice:
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/2avgdt2
>>
>> Slavic is represented by Russian.
>>
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