COGS 200: AML
compare words
b) the two words used here are kill and murder. The line for the word kill starts of lower than murder and then shows a general increase as the line nears towards the year 2000. Around the year 1890 the line for kill becomes higher than that of the line for murder. As for murder, the line starts off high and gradually decreases. Then at around 1931 there is a peak fro the use of the word murder. The word thus is an unstable attractor. The cause for the increase in use of the word murder may be because it was soon after the first world war, so it may have been popular conversation at the time, especially for people referring to deceased soldiers. The use of the word kill gradually increases from 1960 to 2000, this may have been due to increase in crime rates at the years increased and also increased media coverage on deaths, leading to increased use of the word. Both lines show general patterns of multi stable attractors.
Wildcard Search
b) the graph shows that in general, in the years up until around 1880 when the line for the sentence "i love you" begins to increase. As a whole all the other sentences starting with i love remain relatively unused. The sentence "i love you" peaks high (unstable attractor) at around 1902. It then gradually decreases and then peaks again at the year 2000, showing a multi-stable attractor, (a stable attractor in 1960). This huge increase from 1960 onwards may be a result of people socially becoming more open, currently many types of relationships are becoming accepted and also in many countries, publicly displaying affection is becoming more and more the norm. This means people are much more comfortable with saying "i love you" more openly, in some ways the word "love" has lost strength in meaning as a result of its highly frequent usage.
Inflection search
b) the word fight_INF For the word fights, the line stays stable for the entire from 1800 until 2000 showing only a very slight gradual increase. As for the other three words: fight, fighting and fought. The all show very similar patterns with their peaks an troughs. The word fought starts of relatively low and gradually decreases over time, and the line for the word fighting over takes it in 1890. Between 1900 and 1950, shows a multi-stable attractors. Both of the peaks in the lines are around the times of the first and second world wars, which is expected as fighting would likely have been the crux of conversation at those times due to the wars. After those times, all three lines for fight, fighting and fought show a gradual decrease in use in the same pattern. Overall, the use of the word fight is the most frequent.
Part-of Speech Tags
b) here the word I used is vacuum. The noun being the term for a space, commonly used in science, with nothing inside it. The verb of the word vacuum here means a machine that we use to clean floors etc. by removing them off the floor. The graph shows that the verb version of the word is used almost not at all and only gradually increases from 1940 to the year 2000. As for the noun of the word vacuum, this word isn't used much at all up until around 1900. This is may have been due to increase in scientific discovery from the 1900's onwards causing the use of the word to largely increase. Up until around 1960. At this point the line starts to slowly decrease all the way until it reaches 2000.
Search for Parts of Speech
b) This example takes into account *_NOUN, and *_VERB. The graph shows that in general, verbs are use predominantly more than nouns in the English language. It seems that all the verbs and nouns that are represented in the chart are all vague, there are no specific cases for any of the ones show. All of the lines in the chart show a similar pattern also, they are all relatively flat with only minor fluctuations. The graph also shows that there are larger gaps in frequency of use between verbs than there are between the nouns. This shows that there are near to no relative attractors due to the distinct lack of fluctuation in the lines of the graph. It seems that over time there is a continuousness of the us of verbs more than nouns and this may be due to the fact that verb are describing words, meaning that we use them much more frequently as day to day life requires the description os situations fairly often. For example if someone asks how your day is going you may say it is going "swimmingly" -verb.