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Title: | FREQUENCY AND FACT: LEARNING ABOUT THE WORLD THROUGH A CORPUS OF WORLD-ENGLISHES |
Authors: | Snefjella, Bryor |
Advisor: | Kuperman, Victor |
Department: | Cognitive Science of Language |
Keywords: | corpus linguistics, sentiment analysis, cognitive maps, general-well being, World Englishes |
Publication Date: | 2014 |
Abstract: | Two studies are presented, linking word-frequency information within the Global Corpus of Web-based English to real world facts. The first study concerns how patterns of the use of place names reflect geospatial and geopolitical relationships of English-speaking nations. The second study concerns how the emotional connotation of words before place names reflects general well-being in that place. Taken together, these studies demonstrate that the surface structure of language, as embodied in word frequencies, is a useful source of information about the real world. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/16353 |
Appears in Collections: | Open Access Dissertations and Theses |
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post_defense_revisions-9-19-2014.pdf | My Master's thesis | 1.17 MB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
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