Chaos'n'Coffee - tagged with linguistics http://chaosncoffee.com/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron bru@codewitch.org Zipfy n-grams http://chaosncoffee.com/items/view/2748/zipfy-n-grams

studying google's n-grams, it looks like there are two distinct groups of words: the most common ~10k that follow Zipf's prediction (slope ~1.0) and then a penumbra of less  common words (slope ~1.66)

]]> Sun, 01 May 2011 01:31:40 -0700 http://chaosncoffee.com/items/view/2748/zipfy-n-grams Ruby Linguistics http://chaosncoffee.com/items/view/1543/ruby-linguistics

This is a generic, language-neutral framework for extending Ruby objects with linguistic methods.

]]> Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:38:38 -0800 http://chaosncoffee.com/items/view/1543/ruby-linguistics The World Atlas of Language Structures Online http://chaosncoffee.com/items/view/721/the-world-atlas-of-language-structures-online

"a large database of structural (phonological, grammatical, lexical) properties of languages gathered from descriptive materials (such as reference grammars)". awesome

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