COGS200/2017W1/NGramAssignment/55330161

Compare Words

a) b) Dog, canine - synonyms. The usage of the word 'dog' is much more frequent through the whole time period. For the word 'canine' the graph is stable from 1800 to 2000. c) The effect is straightforward, the word 'canine' is mostly used in scientific books and the word 'dog' is more simple and recognizable. d) There is no intersection of these two graphs, so they are developing independently. 'Canine' is almost the same all the time. There are some fluctuations for 'dog' possibly because of change in people' preferences in pets and etc.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=dog%2C+canine&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cdog%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Ccanine%3B%2Cc0#

Wildcard Search

a) b) Favorite color is *. In the written texts people' favourite color is mostly blue closer to 2000. There are many fluctuations in this graph. All colours have their increases and decreases. For instance, red color has its peak in 1900. c) Red color stopped being the most popular soon after 1900. There was a significant drop down. It can possibly be connected with creation of USSR as it has its peak in 1900-s, later it just became the main regime for many various countries, so it stopped being mentioned. d) Climate changes can influence the choice of color as people tend to change their opinions due to the latest fashion trends.

Inflection Search

a) b) Creation_INF, do_INF. Verbs tend to have the most frequent fluctuation as then usage of various forms of verbs is more often used in the books rather than any exact noun such as 'creation'. c) There is an increase for the verb 'do'. d) It is known that people use more verbs in the sentences written in any text.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=creation_INF%2Cdo_INF&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t3%3B%2Ccreation_INF%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bcreation%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bcreations%3B%2Cc0%3B.t3%3B%2Cdo_INF%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bdo%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bdid%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bdoes%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bdone%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bdoing%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bdos%3B%2Cc0

Search for a Word Using Part-of-Speech Tags

a) b) catch_NOUN,catch_VERB,catch_*. There is a more frequent usage of he verb form of catch. For the noun there is a slight increase after 1860. c) There was a slight decrease after 1940 for the verb. Possibly people began to use other synonyms instead of 'catch'. d) Social changes, cultural changes, lexical changes.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=catch_NOUN%2C+catch_VERB%2C+catch_*&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Ccatch_NOUN%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Ccatch_VERB%3B%2Cc0%3B.t2%3B%2Ccatch_%2A%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bcatch_VERB%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bcatch_NOUN%3B%2Cc0#

Search for Parts of Speech (not a specific word)

a) b) *_NOUN, *_VERB. Verbs have more frequent fluctuations compared to nouns. d) Lexical changes.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=*_NOUN%2C*_VERB&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t2%3B%2C%2A_NOUN%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Btime_NOUN%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bman_NOUN%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bmen_NOUN%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bpart_NOUN%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Blife_NOUN%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Byears_NOUN%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bpeople_NOUN%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BGod_NOUN%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BMr._NOUN%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bday_NOUN%3B%2Cc0%3B.t2%3B%2C%2A_VERB%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bis_VERB%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bwas_VERB%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bbe_VERB%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bare_VERB%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bhave_VERB%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bhad_VERB%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bwere_VERB%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bbeen_VERB%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bhas_VERB%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bwould_VERB%3B%2Cc0