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I think Google Books is cool, but "the frequency of words and trends in their usage provid[ing] substantive information" pre-dates Google Books by a long time.
by mycologos 3y ago
I think Google Books is cool, but "the frequency of words and trends in their usage provid[ing] substantive information" pre-dates Google Books by a long time. For example, there's a collection of word frequencies in the complete works of John Keats from 1917 [1]. Manually tabulated, too!
[1] https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001023999 https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001023999
- 542458 3y agoSure, but the Google Books case is a massive and well-funded court case that was a pretty resounding victory for Google and textual analysis of copyrighted works in general, so anybody arguing that this is obviously copyright violation needs to explain why the Google Books case isn’t relevant.