Bigger, Better Google Ngrams: Brace Yourself for the Power of Grammar - Ben Zimmer - Th... - 1 views
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Jacqueline Trademan on 15 Nov 12You may already have heard about this huge project from Google - the Ngram Viewer - an online tool for analyzing the history of language and culture, but there are some improvements. The corpus is mind-boggling lare - 20 million books, and not just in English. Plus the words have been tagged with their parts of speech. There are some other functions that let you narrow in on particular groups of words...it seems to have some concordancer functions. Well, you can read this article to learn more.