[Corpora-List] Culturomics / new Google Books interface / COHA

[Mark Davies]

Many of you have probably heard by now about "Culturomics" (http://www.culturomics.org) and the new Google Books interface (http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/), which allow you to search 500 billion words of text to see changes in frequency of words and phrases (and thus, American society and culture). It's been widely featured in newspapers and magazines for the last day or two (see http://www.culturomics.org/cultural-observatory-at-harvard/papers).

I've created a page (http://corpus.byu.edu/coha/compare-culturomics.asp) that compares Google Books / Culturomics to the new 400 million word Corpus of Historical American English [COHA] (http://corpus.byu.edu/coha/). It discusses how Google Books is nice for exact words and phrases; but of the two, COHA is the only tool that really allows you to look at a wide range of changes -- lexical, morphological, syntactic, and semantic. Anyway, for those who might be interested...

Mark Davies

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Mark Davies
Professor of (Corpus) Linguistics
Brigham Young University
(phone) 801-422-9168 / (fax) 801-422-0906
Web: http://davies-linguistics.byu.edu
 
** Corpus design and use // Linguistic databases **
** Historical linguistics // Language variation **
** English, Spanish, and Portuguese **
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