Assignment2 COGS n-grans

Compare words: Words graphed:important,crucial,paramount,foremost,significant,essential

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Important is the most used word, followed by significant, which only started to rise in popularity after around 1890, then we have essential,whose popularity started to drop just before 1960, crucial,foremost and paramount. Though important is the most mentioned it is also the most unstable because of the roughness of its line compared to the others.

Wildcard search: phrases used: favorite book of the *

Both the lines for "Favorite book of the Bible" and "favorite book of the year" are unstable, but the Bible shows the most instability purely because it is mentioned in "burst" over time. These sudden rises in the Bibles mention add to its instability. From the graph we see that the Bible was first mention in the 1860s were as the book of the year was only first mentioned in the 1900s and has had a few more mentionings after but still fewer than that of the Bible which is growing.

Inflection search: phrases used: I like_INF it,I liked_INF it

The inflection "like" and "liked" are more widely used than "likes", with "like" being used more than its past tense "liked". "Like is the least stable inflection, with the sharpest bends in its line, followed by, "liked" then "likes" which is the most stable with the smoothest line of the three, showing that it is used roughly the same amount over time.

Using part of speech tags: phrases used: catch_*

Catch as a verb has been more widely used than catch as a noun, and the verb is less stable because the line it represents is more sharply crooked than that of the noun.

Search for parts of speech: phrases used: *_NOUN,*_VERB

This graph shows that generally in language verbs are more widely used than nouns. The stability of the verbs is weaker than that of the nouns as the lines for the verbs are not as smooth as those of the nouns whose occurrences are more stable with time.