[Corpora-List] Frequency of the pronoun I

[Adam Funk]

[13/09/11 19:19] Rich Cooper wrote:
> Using "the/I" can lead to infinite values in
> corpora (scientific lit, patents) that never use
> the pronoun "I".  

The usual ;-) way to get around that problem is to calculate

(count("the") + 1) / (count("I") + 1)

instead.

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