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4. Frequency and relative frequency Aa Aa A corpus is a technical term for a collection of texts used to analyze a language and verify its linguistic properties The first modern, computer-readable corpus was the Brown Corpus of Standard American English, compiled by Henry Kucera and W. Nelson Francis of Brown University. The Brown Corpus draws from American English texts printed in 1961 and was for many years a widely cited resource in computational linguistics The five most frequently occurring words in the Brown Corpus are the, of, and, to, and a. Consider a data set consisting of all occurrences of these words in the corpus The following table gives the frequency and relative frequency distributions of a subset of the data. Use the dropdown menus to fill in the rest of the table Word Relative Frequency Frequency 70.0 36.4 0.3794 0.1566 0.1415 0.1252 and 26.1 23.1 184.5 to Total The entire Brown Corpus contains about one million words. Based on the preceding table, the frequency of the word the in the entire corpus is about is about frequently occurring words in the Brown Corpus. The approximately one million words in the entire Brown Corpus include additional words besides the, of, and, to, and a.) occurrences. The relative frequency of the word the in the entire corpus (Hint: Remember, the values in the prior table were calculated based on only the most

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