Quantitative analysis of bibliographic corpora
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Adam Pawłowski
Abstract
The subject of this chapter is bibliographic corpus analysis, with data from the Polish national bibliography from the period 1801–2019. The research allowed us to discover and compare quantitative characteristics of the bibliographic corpus and of the reference corpus of general language. It was shown that the two corpora differ significantly. In particular, differences in the share of particular parts of speech and of the frequency distribution of lexemes were demonstrated. The statistical distributions of word spectra were also studied. The best fit was obtained for generalized inverse Gauss-Poisson and Zipf-Mandelbrot distributions. The analysis of parameters of both distributions for bibliographic and reference corpora also revealed differences between them. The best perspective for future research on bibliographic corpora is, apart from quantitative linguistics, semantic analysis and text-mining.
Abstract
The subject of this chapter is bibliographic corpus analysis, with data from the Polish national bibliography from the period 1801–2019. The research allowed us to discover and compare quantitative characteristics of the bibliographic corpus and of the reference corpus of general language. It was shown that the two corpora differ significantly. In particular, differences in the share of particular parts of speech and of the frequency distribution of lexemes were demonstrated. The statistical distributions of word spectra were also studied. The best fit was obtained for generalized inverse Gauss-Poisson and Zipf-Mandelbrot distributions. The analysis of parameters of both distributions for bibliographic and reference corpora also revealed differences between them. The best perspective for future research on bibliographic corpora is, apart from quantitative linguistics, semantic analysis and text-mining.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction 1
- Part I. Theory and models 7
- On the impact of the initial phrase length on the position of enclitics in Old Czech 9
- Term distance, frequency and collocations 21
- A method for the comparison of general sequences via type-token ratio 37
- Quantitative analysis of syllable properties in Croatian, Serbian, Russian, and Ukrainian 55
- N -grams of grammatical functions and their significant order in the Japanese clause 69
- Linking the dependents 93
- Grammar efficiency and the One-Meaning–One-Form Principle 109
- Distribution and characteristics of commonly used words across different texts in Japanese 121
- Part II. Empirical studies 135
- The perils of big data 137
- From distinguishability to informativity 145
- A Modern Greek readability tool 163
- Phonological properties as predictors of text success 177
- Calculating the victory chances 195
- Topological mapping for visualisation of high-dimensional historical linguistic data 209
- Book genre and author’s gender recognition based on titles 225
- Quantitative analysis of bibliographic corpora 239
- Analysis of English text genre classification based on dependency types 257
- In memory of Gabriel Altmann 271
- Index 277
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction 1
- Part I. Theory and models 7
- On the impact of the initial phrase length on the position of enclitics in Old Czech 9
- Term distance, frequency and collocations 21
- A method for the comparison of general sequences via type-token ratio 37
- Quantitative analysis of syllable properties in Croatian, Serbian, Russian, and Ukrainian 55
- N -grams of grammatical functions and their significant order in the Japanese clause 69
- Linking the dependents 93
- Grammar efficiency and the One-Meaning–One-Form Principle 109
- Distribution and characteristics of commonly used words across different texts in Japanese 121
- Part II. Empirical studies 135
- The perils of big data 137
- From distinguishability to informativity 145
- A Modern Greek readability tool 163
- Phonological properties as predictors of text success 177
- Calculating the victory chances 195
- Topological mapping for visualisation of high-dimensional historical linguistic data 209
- Book genre and author’s gender recognition based on titles 225
- Quantitative analysis of bibliographic corpora 239
- Analysis of English text genre classification based on dependency types 257
- In memory of Gabriel Altmann 271
- Index 277
