[Corpora-List] Frequency of the pronoun I

[Mike Scott]

There are also English texts without THE (lists of products, election 
results etc.) so the computation either way would need to avoid dividing 
by zero...

What a useful discussion. Clarified a particularly cluttered and dusty 
corner of my own thinking.

Cheers -- Mike

On 13/09/2011 19:19, Rich Cooper wrote:
>
> Using "the/I" can lead to infinite values in corpora (scientific lit, 
> patents) that never use the pronoun "I".  It might be better practice 
> to use the inverse, i.e. the "I/the" ration, which would be 0.0 for 
> such corpora.
>

-- 
Mike Scott

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