Ngramassignmentbastiaan

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Question 1 (Synonyms)

A: Please view the picture here (to do) <iframe name="ngram_chart" src="https://books.google.com/ngrams/interactive_chart?content=%28House%2Bhouse%29%2C+%28Home%2Bhome%29&case_insensitive=on&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2C%28House%20%2B%20house%29%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2C%28Home%20%2B%20home%29%3B%2Cc0" width=900 height=500 marginwidth=0 marginheight=0 hspace=0 vspace=0 frameborder=0 scrolling=no></iframe>

B: I searched for "(House+house),(Home+home)"). This graph describes the relationship between the usage of the words House & Home (Not case sensitive). The graph shows that over the past two centuries, the increase of the word "home" increased by a lot compared to "house"

C: One interesting effect is that over the past decades, many books concerning "home" are related to healthcare.

D: At C, I found that the word "home" is often associated with "healthcare". Healthcare itself is something about which much more is written over the past decades, then compared to early last century. Therefore, the increase of the usage of the word "healthcare" maybe explains in part why the usage of "home" increased.

Question 2 (Wildcard)

B: I searched for "route to *_NOUN".

C: Many Indian books write about Indian independence.

D: There is a huge spike in the first half of the 20th century for "Route to India." Indian independence was happening in the first half of the previous century as well, so this event is likely to explain the huge increase in "Route to India" between 1910 and 1950.

Question 3 (Inflection search)

A: <iframe name="ngram_chart" src="https://books.google.com/ngrams/interactive_chart?content=wedding_INF&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t3%3B%2Cwedding_INF%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bwedding%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bwedded%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bwed%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bweddings%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bweds%3B%2Cc0" width=900 height=500 marginwidth=0 marginheight=0 hspace=0 vspace=0 frameborder=0 scrolling=no></iframe>

B: I searched for "wedding_INF". It shows different inflections of the word "wedding". Over the past ±50 years, the word "wedding" itself became relatively much more popular compared to it's inflections.

C: From 1949 - 1998, many books in which the word "wedding" is found, mention wedding not in the traditional sense of the word (two people marry), but the bond between two things in general. For example "Wedding for guitar", which describes guitar-players playing together.

D: A broader usage of the word "wedding", starting around 1970, increased the usage of the word "wedding" compared to other inflections.

Question 4 (Part-of-speech tags)

A: <iframe name="ngram_chart" src="https://books.google.com/ngrams/interactive_chart?content=drive_*&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t2%3B%2Cdrive_%2A%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bdrive_VERB%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bdrive_NOUN%3B%2Cc0" width=900 height=500 marginwidth=0 marginheight=0 hspace=0 vspace=0 frameborder=0 scrolling=no></iframe>

B: I searched for "drive_*" to find the difference between the word drive used as a noun and as a verb. It shows that from 1800-1940 drive as a noun increased it's popularity by a lot compared to the usage of the word as a verb.

C: I couldn't find any specific influences

D: Drive as a noun probably became more popular as we became more and more aware of the science behind motivation and why people do things, compared to "drive" as a verb, which has been really practical.

Question 5 (Part-of-speech, no specific word)

A: <iframe name="ngram_chart" src="https://books.google.com/ngrams/interactive_chart?content=_VERB_+%2F+_NOUN_&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2C%28_VERB_%20/%20%20_NOUN_%29%3B%2Cc0" width=900 height=500 marginwidth=0 marginheight=0 hspace=0 vspace=0 frameborder=0 scrolling=no></iframe>

B: I did "_VERB_ / _NOUN_", which shows the relative occurrence of verbs wrt nouns.

C: I couldn't find any specific influences

D: We have been using fewer verbs over the past centuries, but there is a sudden increase of the usage of verbs in the past decade. Maybe this is because of the use of smartphones, which changed the way we use languages.