Re: [Corpora-List] Query about nomenclature

From: Stefan Evert (evert@IMS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE)
Date: Thu Mar 10 2005 - 09:11:26 MET

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    > Damon Davison's use of Google inspired me to try
    > a variation. I just typed three queries and
    > got the following number of hits:
    >
    > Search string Hits
    > ------------- ------
    > ngram 21,100
    >
    > ngram not perl 540
    >
    > n-gram 85,700
    >

    You do realise that "ngram not perl" found approx. 540 pages that
    contain all three words ("ngram", "not" and "perl"), don't you?

    You can see this quite clearly when you look at the result page where
    the matching keywords are highlighted.

    Stefan.

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