Issues about TAALES.

[Yan, Kexin]

Hi Kris,

Thank you for your reply. In this email, I need to confirm some sentences. You can reply "yes" or "no" in each descriptive sentence. As for answering "no" sentences, you can add your comments. 

Description sentences group  1. In BNC frequency indices, for example, for BNC_written_bigram_normed,  if I can see a number result (such as the frequency of how is is 0.008586364), then it means that how is occurs in BNC written corpus at least 1 time.  If the result of one bigram is N/A (for example, the result of lately I is N/A), it means that lately I is cannot be searched in BNC written corpus at all (the occurrence = 0). The arbitrary cut-off of 5 occurrences is not applied in BNC frequency indices. 

Sentence 2. In COCA frequency indices, for example, for COCA_Academic_Bigram_Frequency, if I can see a number (such as the frequency of how is is 7.07015027663), then it means that how is occurs in COCA_Academic corpus at least 5 times. If the result of one bigram is N/A (such as the result of you lately is N/A), due to the arbitrary cut-off of 5 occurrences being applied, the frequency of you lately is less than 5, probably it can be searched in COCA Academic corpus (0< occurrences <5 ), probably it cannot be searched in COCA Academic corpus at all (occurrence =0). 

Thanks for your reply. Thank you very much. I am looking forward to seeing your comments.

Kind regards,

Kexin Yan

05/12/2022

[Kristopher Kyle]

Description sentences group  1. In BNC frequency indices, for example, for BNC_written_bigram_normed,  if I can see a number result (such as the frequency of how is is 0.008586364), then it means that how is occurs in BNC written corpus at least 1 time.  If the result of one bigram is N/A (for example, the result of lately I is N/A), it means that lately I is cannot be searched in BNC written corpus at all (the occurrence = 0). The arbitrary cut-off of 5 occurrences is not applied in BNC frequency indices. 

Not exactly. I didn't calculate the BNC norms, but each list comprises the 50,000 most frequent bigrams or trigrams. The number represents the frequency normed per 1,000 words. Working backwards, the lowest frequency represented in the written bigram list (e.g., "and fishing") occurs approximately 170 times (this is approximate because I don't have the actual numbers they were working with - there are a few possible permutations. I searched one version of the written BNC and found this string 159 times in the written section of the BNC).

Sentence 2. In COCA frequency indices, for example, for COCA_Academic_Bigram_Frequency, if I can see a number (such as the frequency of how is is 7.07015027663), then it means that how is occurs in COCA_Academic corpus at least 5 times. If the result of one bigram is N/A (such as the result of you lately is N/A), due to the arbitrary cut-off of 5 occurrences being applied, the frequency of you lately is less than 5, probably it can be searched in COCA Academic corpus (0< occurrences <5 ), probably it cannot be searched in COCA Academic corpus at all (occurrence =0). 

Yes, based on the 1990-2012 version of COCA

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Kristopher Kyle

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University of Oregon

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