R. Harald Baayen

Word Frequency Distributions (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a comprehensive introduction to the statistical analysis of word frequency distributions, intended for computational linguists, corpus linguists, psycholinguists, and researchers in the field of quantitative stylistics. It aims to make these techniques more accessible for non-specialists, both theoretically, by means of a careful introduction to the underlying probabilistic and statistical concepts, and practically, by providing a program library implementing the main models for word frequency distributions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Netherlands
• Seitenzahl: 335
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789401008440
• Artikelnr.: 43985154

Inhaltsangabe

1 Word Frequencies.- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 The frequency spectrum.- 1.3 Zipf.- 1.4 The quest for characteristic constants.- 1.5 The lognormal distribution.- 1.6 Discussion.- 1.7 Bibliographical Comments.- 1.8 Questions.- 2 Non-parametric models.- 2.1 Basic concepts.- 2.2 The Urn model.- 2.3 The Structural Type Distribution.- 2.4 The LNRE zone.- 2.5 Good-Turing estimates.- 2.6 Interpolation and Extrapolation.- 2.7 Discussion.- 2.8 Bibliographical Comments.- 2.9 Questions.- 3 Parametric models.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 LNRE models.- 3.3 Evaluating Goodness of Fit.- 3.4 Parameter estimation.- 3.5 A comparative study.- 3.6 Comparing Lexical Measures Across Texts.- 3.7 Discussion.- 3.8 Bibliographical Comments.- 3.9 Questions.- 4 Mixture distributions.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 Expectations, variances, and covariances.- 4.3 Examples of mixture distributions.- 4.4 Morphological Productivity.- 4.5 Discussion.- 4.6 Bibliographical Comments.- 4.7 Questions.- 5 The Randomness Assumption.- 5.1 The Randomness Assumption.- 5.2 Adjusted LNRE models.- 5.3 Discussion.- 5.4 Bibliographical Comments.- 6 Examples of Applications.- 6.1 Distributional properties of the lexicon.- 6.2 Morphological productivity.- 6.3 Authorship and Style.- 6.4 Beyond word frequency distributions.- 6.5 Some practical guidelines.- A List of Symbols.- B Solutions to the exercises.- C Software.- D Data sets.

Rezensionen

From the reviews:
"Baayen's book must surely in the future become the standard point of departure for statistical studies of vocabulary."
(Geoffrey Sampson (Computational Linguistics, 28:04)