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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law EDIT ADD: Zip's Law was not mentioned directly in the blog post but the re
by jasode 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law
EDIT ADD: Zip's Law was not mentioned directly in the blog post but the reply clarified that the API returns a zipf score. However, a word's zipf ranking is dependent on the corpus used. The Wordapi "About" page[1] says most data came from Princeton WordNet but a sibling comment says it came from a subtitles compilation. If the project could clarify the data sources, it would be helpful.
[1]https://www.wordsapi.com/about https://www.wordsapi.com/about
- impostervt 12y agoThe "frequency" score returned by Words API is the a Zipf score for the word. Ranges from ~1.6 to ~7.6. Regarding your update - I'll update the About page.