At 4:48 PM +0100 5/23/01, jre@comp.leeds.ac.uk wrote:
>Greetings list members
>
>Has anyone seen or derived a PoS-tag frequency list from the full BNC?
>I have seen quite a few statistics on the BNC but not the above. I assume
>there probably is one somewhere. If not, i will derive them and post results.
>
>Of course, it is possible that the data has been staring me in the
>face all along
>and I just havn't noticed it :)
>
>Cheers,
>
>John
Hello John,
Here's a frequency list of the POS tags in the whole BNC - it's based
on the new world edition. I can also provide the same for BNC1 if you
need it.
Best,
Sebastian
NN1 14274585
PUN 11092783
AT0 8663481
PRP 7842812
AJ0 6353313
NN2 5217109
PNP 4977522
AV0 4599338
NP0 3848339
CJC 3452089
PRF 2886608
VVI 2413119
DT0 2250472
VVN 2020646
VVD 1870405
CRD 1844925
PUQ 1665862
TO0 1604608
VM0 1435280
DPS 1402899
VBZ 1298077
CJS 1262138
VVG 1212317
VVB 1197073
VBD 1196462
XX0 771213
VVZ 714013
AVP 656794
VBI 645066
DTQ 640959
VBB 639622
CJT 632291
NN0 536042
NN1-VVB 530661
POS 494217
PUR 434210
PUL 427975
VHD 423845
AJ0-NN1 422503
UNC 410790
ITJ 376728
NP0-NN1 348481
VHB 347918
ORD 336127
PNI 296373
VHZ 286142
VBN 260364
PRP-AVP 246302
EX0 246264
AVQ 243315
NN1-AJ0 239907
VVB-NN1 219188
PNQ 214021
VVN-VVD 207062
VHI 202033
AJC 196473
VDB 193393
VVD-VVN 191147
ZZ0 161211
NN1-NP0 157107
VDD 135968
PNX 132624
VVG-AJ0 118635
VVN-AJ0 112518
VVG-NN1 108225
NN2-VVZ 106436
AVP-PRP 99800
AJS 91616
VBG 84362
CJT-DT0 81909
VDI 80679
AV0-AJ0 79817
NN1-VVG 76634
VDZ 67751
AJ0-AV0 67209
DT0-CJT 54924
VVZ-NN2 54406
AJ0-VVG 51927
AJ0-VVN 51381
PRP-CJS 50782
CJS-AVQ 47869
CJS-PRP 45910
VDN 34326
VHG 34314
AJ0-VVD 28008
VDG 27190
VHN 25999
PNI-CRD 21996
AVQ-CJS 20370
VVD-AJ0 16408
CRD-PNI 4818
Total number of POS-tags: 111,246,830
--Sebastian Hoffmann Department of English University of Zurich phone(work): +41-1-634 3551 phone (private): +41-1-341 6155
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