The Use of Film Subtitles to Estimate Word Frequencies

Autor/inn/en	New, Boris; Brysbaert, Marc; Veronis, Jean; Pallier, Christophe
Titel	The Use of Film Subtitles to Estimate Word Frequencies
Quelle	In: Applied Psycholinguistics, 28 (2007) 4, S.661-677 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-7164
DOI	10.1017/S014271640707035X
Schlagwörter	Factor Analysis; Films; Word Frequency; French; Internet; Computational Linguistics; Evaluation Methods + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Faktorenanalyse; Film; Word analysis; Frequency; Wortanalyse; Häufigkeit; Französisch; Linguistics; Computerlinguistik
Abstract	We examine the use of film subtitles as an approximation of word frequencies in human interactions. Because subtitle files are widely available on the Internet, they may present a fast and easy way to obtain word frequency measures in language registers other than text writing. We compiled a corpus of 52 million French words, coming from a variety of films. Frequency measures based on this corpus compared well to other spoken and written frequency measures, and explained variance in lexical decision times in addition to what is accounted for by the available French written frequency measures. (As Provided).
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