types2: Type and hapax accumulation curves — examples

Sample data for https://github.com/suomela/types

For more information, see https://jukkasuomela.fi/types2/

Quick start

Open the following files in your web browser and explore:

bnc-output/web/index.html
ceec-output/web/index.html

These are also available at:

• https://jukkasuomela.fi/types2/bnc/
• https://jukkasuomela.fi/types2/ceec/

Directories

empty: empty database, without any input data.

bnc-input and ceec-input: input data.

bnc-output and ceec-output: end results after running the following commands:

types-run
types-web

Case study: BNC and -er

This data set is based on the following sources:

• British National Corpus (BNC)
• MorphoQuantics, http://morphoquantics.co.uk

The results are linked with the BNCweb web interface (Lancaster University). To access BNCweb, you will need a user account.

Scripts related to the construction of this data set are available at https://github.com/suomela/bnc-affix

Case study: CEEC, -ity, and -ness

This data set is based on the following sources:

• Corpus of Early English Correspondence (CEEC), http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/CoRD/corpora/CEEC/

The results are linked with the CEECer web interface (University of Helsinki), To access BNCweb, you will need a user account.

Running times

With default parameters, on a typical desktop computer (Apple iMac late 2015, with a 4-core 3.2-GHz Intel Core i5):

• BNC: approx. 6 min
• CEEC: approx. 5 min

Acknowledgements

Data cited herein have been extracted from the British National Corpus, distributed by the University of Oxford on behalf of the BNC Consortium. All rights in the texts cited are reserved.

Authors

• Tanja Säily, University of Helsinki: https://tanjasaily.fi/

• Jukka Suomela, Aalto University: https://jukkasuomela.fi/