[Corpora-List] Ambiguous words in English and their frequency

[Eckhard Bick]

Hello,

It depends on what you call ambiguity, of course, and whether it's types 
or tokens.

If ambiguity is meant to include in-lemma inflexion ambiguity such as 
participle vs. past tense, and infinitive versus finite verb, then a 
quick mini-run, using our Constraint Grammar analysis on Leipzig 
internet corpus data, yields an ambiguity of 2.11 readings per English 
word token, punctuation excluded.

Best regards,
Eckhard


On 2012-01-25 20:33, FORT, Karen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I need to find this information (the proportion of ambiguous words in English and their frequency).
> For example, we know that in French 8% of the words represent 30% of the ambiguity.
> Of course, it's very rough, but it's only to have a rough idea.
>
> Can somebody help me with this (of course, I searched for a ref but could not find anything precise)?
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Karën FORT
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Eckhard Bick,
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University of Southern Denmark
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