The use of film subtitles to estimate word frequencies

被引：214
作者：
New, Boris
Brysbaert, Marc
Veronis, Jean
Pallier, Christophe
机构：
[1] Royal Holloway Univ London, London, England
[2] Univ Aix Marseille 1, F-13331 Marseille 3, France
[3] INSERM, CNRS, F-75654 Paris 13, France
[4] Serv Hosp Frederic Joliot, Orsay, France
来源：
APPLIED PSYCHOLINGUISTICS | 2007年 / 28卷 / 04期
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D O I：
10.1017/S014271640707035X
中图分类号：
H0 [语言学];
学科分类号：
030303 ; 0501 ; 050102 ;
摘要：
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.
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