The impact of lacking metadata and data truncation for the measurement of cultural and linguistic change using the Google Ngram datasets
- As a result of legal restrictions the Google Ngram Corpora datasets are a) not accompanied by any metadata regarding the texts the corpora consist of and the data are b) truncated to prevent an indirect conclusion from the n-gram to the author of the text. Some of the consequences of this strategy are discussed in this article.
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| Author: | Alexander KoplenigORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-31557 |
| Publisher: | Institut für Deutsche Sprache |
| Place of publication: | Mannheim |
| Document Type: | Preprint |
| Language: | German |
| Year of first Publication: | 2014 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2014/10/17 |
| Tag: | N-Gramm |
| GND Keyword: | Datenstruktur; Korpus <Linguistik>; Kulturwandel; Metadaten; Sprachstatistik; Sprachwandel |
| Page Number: | 28 S., 2 Anhänge |
| Note: | An updated version of this paper entitled: "The impact of lacking metadata for the measurement of cultural and linguistic change using the Google Ngram datasets – reconstructing the composition of the German corpus in times of WWII" is accepted for publication in the the journal "Digital Scholarship in the Humanities" (http://dsh.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/09/02/llc.fqv037). |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 410 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik |
| Open Access?: | ja |
| Leibniz-Classification: | Sprache, Linguistik |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Computerlinguistik |
| Licence (German): |  Urheberrechtlich geschützt |