Word frequency–rank relationship in tagged texts

We analyze the frequency–rank relationship in sub-vocabularies corresponding to three different grammatical classes (nouns, verbs, and others) in a collection of literary works in English, whose words have been automatically tagged according to their grammatical role. Comparing with a null hypothesi...

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Autores: Chacoma, Andrés Alberto, Zanette, Damian Horacio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/185074
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/185074
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:FREQUENCY–RANK STATISTICS
GRAMMATICAL FUNCTION
LANGUAGE PROCESSING
LINGUISTIC REGULARITIES
QUANTITATIVE LINGUISTICS
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Sumario:We analyze the frequency–rank relationship in sub-vocabularies corresponding to three different grammatical classes (nouns, verbs, and others) in a collection of literary works in English, whose words have been automatically tagged according to their grammatical role. Comparing with a null hypothesis which assumes that words belonging to each class are uniformly distributed across the frequency–ranked vocabulary of the whole work, we disclose statistically significant differences between the three classes. This results point to the fact that frequency–rank relationships may reflect linguistic features associated with grammatical function.