[Corpora-List] Query about nomenclature

Stefan Evert evert at IMS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE
Thu Mar 10 08:11:26 UTC 2005


> Damon Davison's use of Google inspired me to try
> a variation.  I just typed three queries and
> got the following number of hits:
>
> Search string            Hits
> -------------           ------
> ngram                   21,100
>
> ngram not perl             540
>
> n-gram                  85,700
>

You do realise that "ngram not perl" found approx. 540 pages that
contain all three words ("ngram", "not" and "perl"), don't you?

You can see this quite clearly when you look at the result page where
the matching keywords are highlighted.

Stefan.

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