Monday, April 21, 2008
Corpus Linguistics at its best
I just found about the Facebook feature called Facebook Lexicon (warning: you'll have to be logged into Facebook for this link to work). It's a search feature that counts the number of times certain words occur on walls all over Facebook. I daresay the great majority of those Facebook users out there who are using Lexicon don't even know they're doing corpus linguistics! Tee hee!
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Wow! It's funny to see when words are mentioned, there are obvious patterns. Example: xoxo was said more on Christmas, New Years, and Valentines. The word Batman was mentioned an incredible amount around the time Heath Ledger died. Fun!!
I just found out about this today!! It is the coolest thing ever. It's like a whole new field of corpus linguistics. And it's really nerdy that I am this excited about it. Yahoo!
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