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Why the quantitative analysis of diachronic corpora that does not consider the temporal aspect of time-series can lead to wrong conclusions

  • Recently, a claim was made, on the basis of the German Google Books 1-gram corpus (Michel et al., Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books. Science 2010; 331: 176–82), that there was a linear relationship between six non-technical non-Nazi words and three ‘explicitly Nazi words’ in times of World War II (Caruana-Galizia. 2015. Politics and the German language: Testing Orwell’s hypothesis using the Google N-Gram corpus. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities [Online]. http://dsh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/doi/10.1093/llc/fqv011 (accessed 15 April 2015)). Here, I try to show that apparent relationships like this are the result of misspecified models that do not take into account the temporal aspect of time-series data. The main point of this article is to demonstrate why such analyses run the risk of incorrect statistical inference, where potential effects are both meaningless and can potentially lead to wrong conclusions.

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Author:Alexander KoplenigORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-43679
DOI:https://doi.org/0.1093/llc/fqv030
ISSN:2055-768X
Parent Title (English):Digital Scholarship in the Humanities
Publisher:Oxford University Press (OUP)
Place of publication:Oxford
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2017
Date of Publication (online):2015/08/13
Publicationstate:Postprint
Reviewstate:Peer-Revied
GND Keyword:Internet; Korpus <Linguistik>; Sprachstatistik
Volume:32 (2017)
Issue:1
First Page:159
Last Page:168
Note:
Advance Access published August 13, 2015
Print version: Digital Scholarship Humanities (2017) 32 (1): 159-168.
DDC classes:400 Sprache / 410 Linguistik
Open Access?:ja
Leibniz-Classification:Sprache, Linguistik
Program areas:Lexik
Licence (German):License LogoUrheberrechtlich geschützt