[Corpora-List] Google Ngrams tool?

[Noam Ordan]

Yes, "suck" sucks, not every revealing, as you said, it's OCR-defected.

Thanks for this, Noam


On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Joerg Tiedemann <
jorg.tiedemann at lingfil.uu.se> wrote:

>
> Interesting is also the distribution of "fuck" with a second peak in the
> early 19th century.
>
> http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=fuck&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=
> However, this is simply due to a simple problem with OCR (often referring
> to "such" with a long s). So, be careful ...
>
> Jörg
>
>
> On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Noam Ordan <noam.ordan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear Mark,
>>
>> Thanks a lot for the pointers, great work. I really liked the "gay"
>> example, it seems that during the 19th century gay had sort of religious
>> connotations, not least within the phrase "gay family". Things change.
>>
>> Any chance of putting up more languages? I assume you focus mostly on
>> English (and some Spanish).
>>
>> Thanks again,
>> Noam Ordan
>>
>>
>>  From: Mark Davies <Mark_Davies at byu.edu>
>>> Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] Google Ngrams tool?
>>> To: Noam Ordan <noam.ordan at gmail.com>, "corpora at uib.no"
>>>         <corpora at uib.no>
>>>
>>>
>>> >> Does anyone know of a tool, preferably a software package, which
>>> deals with Google ngrams taking dates into account? Goolge Ngram Viewer
>>> shows trends but does not allow for an analysis of, say, collocations of a
>>> certain word during a certain time-frame.
>>>
>>> http://googlebooks.byu.edu/
>>>
>>> This does collocates, and you can see the collocates in each time
>>> period. e.g.:
>>>
>>> http://googlebooks.byu.edu/?b=x4&c=us&q=10283408
>>>
>>> and even compare the collocates in two different periods, e.g.:
>>>
>>> http://googlebooks.byu.edu/?b=x4&c=us&q=10283420
>>>
>>> >> Also, any pointer to a publication by historians who utilized this
>>> resource (other than anecdotal examples in "culturomics" publications)
>>> would be much appreciated.
>>>
>>> See http://googlebooks.byu.edu/compare-googleBooks.asp#x6
>>>
>>> These are some "starter" examples of what can be done with the
>>> interface. In the next two weeks I'll be sending off a paper to a journal,
>>> which provides lots of culture-oriented searches from the Advanced/BYU
>>> Google Books interface.
>>>
>>> MD
>>>
>>> ============================================
>>> Mark Davies
>>> Professor of Linguistics / Brigham Young University
>>> http://davies-linguistics.byu.edu/
>>> ** Corpus design and use // Linguistic databases **
>>> ** Historical linguistics // Language variation **
>>> ** English, Spanish, and Portuguese **
>>> ============================================
>>>
>>>
>>>
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