RE: [Corpora-List] Frequencies of words in English given a certain domain

From: Mark Davies (Mark_Davies@byu.edu)
Date: Fri Mar 02 2007 - 02:55:59 MET

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    Mario,

    At http://view.byu.edu (BNC; 100 million words), you can select any of
    70+ registers/genres, and then get a frequency listing for that genre.
    Just enter "*" (without quotation marks) for a general frequency listing
    for the selected register, "[nn1]" for singular nouns in that register,
    etc.

    You can also easily compare word frequency in one register (or set of
    registers) against another, e.g. sermons vs. spoken, tabloids vs.
    broadsheet, medical vs. academic, etc.

    Best,

    Mark Davies

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    Brigham Young University
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    -----Original Message-----
    From: owner-corpora@lists.uib.no [mailto:owner-corpora@lists.uib.no] On
    Behalf Of Mario Crespo Miguel
    Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 9:39 AM
    To: corpora@uib.no
    Subject: [Corpora-List] Frequencies of words in English given a certain
    domain

    Dear everybody,

    I am looking for different frequencies of words in English given
    different domains. I already have it for the medical domain, but I
    would like to extend my study to other domains. I would really
    appreciate it if someone can help me. all the best,

    Mario



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