The use of film subtitles to estimate word frequencies
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- Boris New, Marc Brysbaert (UGent) , Jean Veronis and Christophe Pallier
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- We examine the use of film subtitles as an approximation of word frequencies in human interactions. Because subtitle files are widely available on the Internet, they may present a fast and easy way to obtain word frequency measures in language registers other than text writing. We compiled a corpus of 52 million French words, coming from a variety of films. Frequency measures based on this corpus compared well to other spoken and written frequency measures, and explained variance in lexical decision times in addition to what is accounted for by the available French written frequency measures.
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- FRENCH, INTERNET, LEXICAL DATABASE
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-599589
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- New, Boris, et al. “The Use of Film Subtitles to Estimate Word Frequencies.” APPLIED PSYCHOLINGUISTICS, vol. 28, no. 4, 2007, pp. 661–77, doi:10.1017/S014271640707035X.
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- New, B., Brysbaert, M., Veronis, J., & Pallier, C. (2007). The use of film subtitles to estimate word frequencies. APPLIED PSYCHOLINGUISTICS, 28(4), 661–677. https://doi.org/10.1017/S014271640707035X
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- New, Boris, Marc Brysbaert, Jean Veronis, and Christophe Pallier. 2007. “The Use of Film Subtitles to Estimate Word Frequencies.” APPLIED PSYCHOLINGUISTICS 28 (4): 661–77. https://doi.org/10.1017/S014271640707035X.
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- New, Boris, Marc Brysbaert, Jean Veronis, and Christophe Pallier. 2007. “The Use of Film Subtitles to Estimate Word Frequencies.” APPLIED PSYCHOLINGUISTICS 28 (4): 661–677. doi:10.1017/S014271640707035X.
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- 1.New B, Brysbaert M, Veronis J, Pallier C. The use of film subtitles to estimate word frequencies. APPLIED PSYCHOLINGUISTICS. 2007;28(4):661–77.
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- [1]B. New, M. Brysbaert, J. Veronis, and C. Pallier, “The use of film subtitles to estimate word frequencies,” APPLIED PSYCHOLINGUISTICS, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 661–677, 2007.
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abstract = {{We examine the use of film subtitles as an approximation of word frequencies in human interactions. Because subtitle files are widely available on the Internet, they may present a fast and easy way to obtain word frequency measures in language registers other than text writing. We compiled a corpus of 52 million French words, coming from a variety of films. Frequency measures based on this corpus compared well to other spoken and written frequency measures, and explained variance in lexical decision times in addition to what is accounted for by the available French written frequency measures.}},
author = {{New, Boris and Brysbaert, Marc and Veronis, Jean and Pallier, Christophe}},
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journal = {{APPLIED PSYCHOLINGUISTICS}},
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title = {{The use of film subtitles to estimate word frequencies}},
url = {{http://doi.org/10.1017/S014271640707035X}},
volume = {{28}},
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}
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