A124015 thoughts

[franktaw at netscape.net]

I'm not saying one way or the other whether this sort of thing belongs
in the OEIS; just that, if it is going to be there, the Brown Corpus
would be the best source for it.

The Brown Corpus is about as concrete as you can get in this area.  It
is very well defined and a standard research reference.

Franklin T. Adams-Watters


-----Original Message-----
From: bdm at cs.anu.edu.au

  * franktaw at netscape.net <franktaw at netscape.net> [061106 04:35]:
> Some years ago, researchers at Brown University put together a
> collection of text from a large variety of source to serve as a
> cross-section of English usage, for study of this kind of question.  
If
> you're going to add a sequence with statistics of this sort, that 
would
> be the place to start.
>
> See, e.g., Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Corpus.
>
> Franklin T. Adams-Watters

Yes, but I don't know if statistics based on sampling belong in OEIS.
They are not precise well-defined quantities.  Counts derived from
single texts are more concrete, but even then there are multiple
editions, even changes between printings of the same edition.

Brendan.


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