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cs.CL2015
Is language evolution grinding to a halt? The scaling of lexical turbulence in English fiction suggests it is not
Eitan Adam Pechenick, Christopher M. Danforth, Peter Sheridan Dodds
Of basic interest is the quantification of the long term growth of a language's lexicon as it develops to more completely cover both a culture's communication requirements and know…
physics.soc-ph2015★ 452 cited
Characterizing the Google Books corpus: Strong limits to inferences of socio-cultural and linguistic evolution
Eitan Adam Pechenick, Christopher M. Danforth, Peter Sheridan Dodds
It is tempting to treat frequency trends from the Google Books data sets as indicators of the "true" popularity of various words and phrases. Doing so allows us to draw quantitativ…