[Corpora-List] Difference in POS tag distribution in different genres

[Mark Davies]

>> Does anyone know of any study of the difference in (and an analysis of the reasons) part-of-speech tag distribution in different genres? 

Biber et al talk about this a lot in their corpus-based 1998 Longman grammar.

MD

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Mark Davies
Professor of Linguistics / Brigham Young University
http://davies-linguistics.byu.edu/

** Corpus design and use // Linguistic databases **
** Historical linguistics // Language variation **
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Subject: [Corpora-List] Difference in POS tag distribution in different genres

Does anyone know of any study of the difference in (and an analysis of the reasons) part-of-speech tag distribution in different genres? A quick study I made yesterday showed e.g. that my working hypothesis that there are more proper nouns in news paper text than in fiction was correct, at least on the data I examined.

Karin Cavallin
PhD Student in Computational Linguistics
University of Gothenburg, Sweden

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