A124015 thoughts

[David Wilson]

Sounds great. Where do I get the Brown Corpus in computer-readable form?

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From: <franktaw at netscape.net>
To: <seqfan at ext.jussieu.fr>
Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2006 6:26 PM
Subject: Re: A124015 thoughts


> 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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