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culturomics for those who love the original, is the new bibliographic information service that scientometric innovative humanities computing - so that the NYT is willing to talk about "Humanities 2.0" - backed by the inevitable Google Harvard researchers who developed the chart of a n-gram Markov on a population of data extracted from 4% of all books ever written in six languages \u200b\u200bfor a total of 500 million words in Google Books, "write a word or phrase in one of seven languages \u200b\u200b(English, French, German, English, Hebrew, Russian, Chinese) and look how its frequency of use has changed over the past centuries' Calls the home page of Culturomics .
Today, however, the resource is still the only English language optimized for the period 1800-2000. Scientists from various disciplines from Harvard University have created, so a Google Books N-gram Viewer, which provides statistical data in different fields such as lexicography, grammar, collective memory, the use of technology, fame, censorship, the historical epidemiology.
To cite an example given by Patricia Cohen, writing the word "women" compared with "men" you can see the evolution of the frequency of two terms, stable until the arrival of feminism 70s which overturned and increased the frequency ratio.
The resource, say Harvard, you can accelerate, among other things, the study of the evolution of language for updating dictionaries.
Today, however, the resource is still the only English language optimized for the period 1800-2000. Scientists from various disciplines from Harvard University have created, so a Google Books N-gram Viewer, which provides statistical data in different fields such as lexicography, grammar, collective memory, the use of technology, fame, censorship, the historical epidemiology.
To cite an example given by Patricia Cohen, writing the word "women" compared with "men" you can see the evolution of the frequency of two terms, stable until the arrival of feminism 70s which overturned and increased the frequency ratio.
The resource, say Harvard, you can accelerate, among other things, the study of the evolution of language for updating dictionaries.
- Digitally mapping the republic of Letters
- Digital keys for unlocking the Humanities' riches
- billion in 500 words, new window on cultures
- Quantitative analysis of cultures using millions of digitized books
[pre-print for "The Librarian", III series, ISSN 11250992, 1-2/2011]
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