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US President Rutherford B. Hayes used the word "sedulously" in his first State of the Union address in 1877. I had to look it up.
I will work sedulously to bring this word back from the brink of extinction!
(and let us wax nostalgically for the days when Presidents had above-average vocabularies)
(and how about those days when "the United States" were referred to in the plural?)
#vocabulary
#FormerUSPresident
#USHistory
#RutherfordBHayes
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#Google Books Is Indexing #AI-Generated Books
👉 #GoogleBooks is indexing low quality, AI-generated books that will turn up in search results, and could possibly impact Google #Ngram viewer, an important tool used by researchers to track #language use throughout history.
#GoogleNgram #NgramViewer #linguistics #diachrony #diachroniclinguistics #research #languages #aigeneratedcontent #AIgeneratedBooks
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I had not touched the #GoogleNgram viewer in a while and a colleague is asking about it. Started poking around and found this nice overview of different methods for getting data beyond the viewer.
"Working with Google Ngrams: A Data-Wrangling Tale," Blair Fix, @blair_fix
https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2020/10/19/working-with-google-ngrams-a-data-wrangling-tale/
Also shares an #RStats package - ngramr - for working with the tool. Nice.