Course:COGS200/2017W1/NGramAssignment/sheena

Compare words

(a) college & university

<iframe name="ngram_chart" src="https://books.google.com/ngrams/interactive_chart content=college%2Cuniversity&case_insensitive=on&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t4%3B%2Ccollege%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3BCollege%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bcollege%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BCOLLEGE%3B%2Cc0%3B.t4%3B%2Cuniversity%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3BUniversity%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Buniversity%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BUNIVERSITY%3B%2Cc0" width=900 height=500 marginwidth=0 marginheight=0 hspace=0 vspace=0 frameborder=0 scrolling=no></iframe>

(b) code: college,university

(c) According to the graph, the word college is used more often than university before 1920. However, there was an intersection in 1915 showing that the university was most used and the its tendency was keep increasing since around 1864.

Wildcard search

(a) season

<iframe name="ngram_chart" src="https://books.google.com/ngrams/interactive_chart?content=favorite+season+is+*&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t2%3B%2Cfavorite%20season%20is%20%2A%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bfavorite%20season%20is%20autumn%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bfavorite%20season%20is%20the%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bfavorite%20season%20is%20spring%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bfavorite%20season%20is%20fall%3B%2Cc0" width=900 height=500 marginwidth=0 marginheight=0 hspace=0 vspace=0 frameborder=0 scrolling=no></iframe>

(b) code: favorite season is *

(c) By before and after 1920, people's favorite season is autumn. But the autumn had the lowest rates in 1960. By contrast, the graph illustrates that preferences of the Spring from people was increasing from 1981 to 2000.

Inflection search

(a) phrase

<iframe name="ngram_chart" src="https://books.google.com/ngrams/interactive_chart?content=know_INF+consequences%2C+know+consequences_INF&case_insensitive=on&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t3%3B%2Cknow_INF%20consequences%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bknown%20consequences%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bknow%20consequences%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bknowing%20consequences%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cknow%20consequences%3B%2Cc0" width=900 height=500 marginwidth=0 marginheight=0 hspace=0 vspace=0 frameborder=0 scrolling=no></iframe>

(b) code: know_INF consequences,know consequences_INF

(c) Based on the verb phrase Know consequences, the graph shows that compare to other tense, the consequences with past participle known is most frequently to use. Because probably people always know the consequences at last.

Seardch for a word using Part-of-Speech tags

(a) cheat

<iframe name="ngram_chart" src="https://books.google.com/ngrams/interactive_chart?content=cheat_*&case_insensitive=on&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t2%3B%2Ccheat_%2A%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bcheat_VERB%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bcheat_NOUN%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bcheat_PRON%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bcheat_ADJ%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bcheat_DET%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bcheat_ADP%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bcheat_ADV%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bcheat_NUM%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bcheat_PRT%3B%2Cc0" width=900 height=500 marginwidth=0 marginheight=0 hspace=0 vspace=0 frameborder=0 scrolling=no></iframe>

(b) code: cheat_*

(c) The word cheat can be used as a noun or used as a verb. It is interesting that the noun cheat was used more often than the verb cheat in 1808, but there was an intersection between the noun and the verb in 1814. After that, the verb cheat was most common word to used.

Search for Parts of Speech (not a specific word)

(a) Verb

<iframe name="ngram_chart" src="https://books.google.com/ngrams/interactive_chart?content=*_VERB&case_insensitive=on&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=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" width=900 height=500 marginwidth=0 marginheight=0 hspace=0 vspace=0 frameborder=0 scrolling=no></iframe>

(b) code: *_VERB

(c)From the graph, it can be noted that the present tense of verb be reaches to the peak, it was always around 0.80% to 1.00%.