Corpora: Reference

From: Mari Olsen (molsen@microsoft.com)
Date: Mon Feb 12 2001 - 17:51:26 MET

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    Can anyone provide a reference for a purported study, in which someone
    analyzed the Wall Street Journal for new words, the number of which tailed
    off to 20 words per (month? week?) after a certain point? Or is this an NLP
    urban legend? A colleague recalls Mitch Marcus pointing out that the rate of
    new word occurrences does not asymptote but rather continues at some small
    but non-trivial rate, but not whether this is Marcus' own study, an
    observation, or a reference to another work.

    Thanks,

    Mari Olsen
    Microsoft-Natural Language Group

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