Modelling the Distribution of Word Length: Some Methodological Problems

Grotjahn, Rüdiger; Altmann, Gabriel

doi:10.1007/978-94-011-1769-2_9

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“…It is also obvious that the most common words tend to be shorter than the average word length of the HNC. Both of these observations comply with what has been found for other languages (Grotjahn & Altmann, 1993) and they are compatible with Zipf's ''principle of least effort'' and the more general self-organization of language systems, which is apparent in many aspects of their structure. We note that the above results for the average word lengths and the corresponding distributions are almost identical with those that we made previously (Hatzigeorgiu et al, 2001) for the 13MW HNC.…”

Section: Word Length In Hncsupporting

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Basic Quantitative Characteristics of the Modern Greek Language Using the Hellenic National Corpus

Mikros

Hatzigeorgiu

Carayannis

2005

Journal of Quantitative Linguistics

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ModernGreek is one of the least quantitatively studied modern European languages and the goal of this paper is to fill this relative void. We use the Hellenic National Corpus (HNC), which is a growing corpus that currently includes 33 million words. The corpus and all the tools used in our work were developed by the Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP). In this paper we focus on three main areas: the lists of the 1000 most common words and lemmas, word length and letter frequency. We also make some comparisons with earlier work, in which we had used the previous 13 million word edition of the HNC.

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Section: Word Length In Hncsupporting

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Basic Quantitative Characteristics of the Modern Greek Language Using the Hellenic National Corpus

Mikros

Hatzigeorgiu

Carayannis

2005

Journal of Quantitative Linguistics

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“…À semelhança do observado noutras línguas (ver Grotjahn & Altmann, 1993;Sigurd, Eeg-Olofsson, & van de Weijer, 2004;Wimmer & Altmann, 1996), esta relação comprova também no PE a lei de Zipf, segundo a qual as palavras mais frequentemente usadas numa língua são aquelas que requerem menos esforço no seu uso/utilização. No P-PAL mais de 50% das frequências lexicais ocorrem em palavras de três ou menos letras no léxico de lemas e de quatro ou menos letras no léxico de formas.…”

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Procura-PALavras (P-Pal): uma nova medida de frequência lexical do português europeu contemporâneo

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Iriarte²,

Almeida³

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ResumoNeste trabalho apresentamos as estratégias e os procedimentos adoptados na constituição de uma nova medida de frequência lexical do Português Europeu contemporâneo, o Procura-PALavras (P--PAL). Baseado num corpus de mais de 227 milhões de palavras, o P-PAL é uma aplicação web que oferece, por defeito, valores de frequência lexical para todas as suas entradas lexicais (lemas e formas) e que permite a computação de uma grande diversidade de outras medidas objectivas (lexicais e sublexicais) e subjectivas. Descrevemos ainda o processo de defi nição das suas entradas lexicais e da extracção dos respectivos valores de frequência. O elevado número de índices e de entradas lexicais tornam o P-PAL numa aplicação web avançada e indispensável à promoção e internacionalização da investigação em Portugal. O P-PAL encontra-se disponível em http://p-pal.di.uminho.pt/tools Palavras-chave: Frequência lexical, bases lexicais, corpus/corpora, português europeu. AbstractIn this paper we present the strategies and procedures undertaken in the development of a new measure of lexical frequency of the contemporary European Portuguese -Procura-PALavras (P-PAL). Based on a corpus of over 227 million words, P-PAL offers the default frequency per million words (lemmas and wordforms), and the computation of several other objective (lexical and sublexical) and subjective word metrics. We also describe lexical entry integration and word frequency extraction. The high number of indices and lexical entries makes P-PAL an advanced and indispensable web application for the promotion and internationalization of Portuguese research. P-PAL is available at http://p-pal.di.uminho.pt/tools

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“…According to the review by Grotjahn and Altmann (1993), Fucks (1955Fucks ( , 1956 first demonstrated that the word length in a corpus empirically and theoretically follows a variant of Poisson distributions. The word length of a natural corpus has been observed to follow the variants of Poisson distributions in more than 32 languages (Best, 1996).…”

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Section: Word Length and Sentence Lengthmentioning

confidence: 99%