Generating and presenting string frequency measurements of Project Gutenberg texts

<p>The electronic age has increased the range of human capabilities to such an extent that the expectations about appropriate empirical linguistic analysis are changing. A hundred years ago, linguistics was largely an empirical manual process that produced information intended for humans. Today, the world is different as inexpensive computing power and the prevalence of information in electronic format encourages that, whenever possible, information be processed by automated and scalable means and the results be usable and understandable by computers. Creating sustainable and usable observations is best achieved through a standards-based approach that meets long term persistence and usability goals. This thesis presents a scalable architecture for creating linguistic observations in the form of string frequencies measurements and instantiates those measurements in a machine-readable standards-based format called Resource Descriptive Framework (RDF).</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts (MA)

Level thesis:degree_level

Open Access Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English Language and Literature

Year

2007

Author dc:creator

• Reck, Ronald P

Contributors dc:contributor

• Anthony Aristar
• Helen Aristar-Dry

• Metadata
• RDF (Document markup language)
• Computational linguistics
• Linguistics

Repository record dc:identifier

https://commons.emich.edu/theses/1

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:commons.emich.edu:theses-1000