BrownLOBPassives

This data set contains frequency counts of passive verb phrases for selected texts
 from the Brown corpus of written American English (Francis &amp; Kucera 1964)
 and the comparable LOB corpus of written British English (Johansson et al. 1978).

datasets

Utility functions for the statistical analysis of corpus frequency data.
This package is a companion to the open-source course "Statistical Inference:
A Gentle Introduction for Computational Linguists and Similar Creatures" ('SIGIL').

Stephanie Evert

corpora

Statistics and Data Sets for Corpus Frequency Data

BrownLOBPassives function

A data frame with 622 rows and the following columns:
<dl>
 <dt><code>id</code>:</dt>
<dd>a unique ID for each text (character)</dd> <dt><code>passive</code>:</dt>
<dd>number of passive verb phrases</dd> <dt><code>n_w</code>:</dt>
<dd>total number of words in the genre category</dd> <dt><code>n_s</code>:</dt>
<dd>total number of sentences in the genre category</dd> <dt><code>cat</code>:</dt>
<dd>genre category code (<code>A</code> ... <code>R</code>; factor)</dd> <dt><code>genre</code>:</dt>
<dd>descriptive label for the genre category (factor)</dd> <dt><code>lang</code>:</dt>
<dd>descriptive label for the genre category</dd> 
</dl>

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Stephanie Evert (<a href="https://purl.org/stephanie.evert">https://purl.org/stephanie.evert</a>)

Author

This data set contains frequency counts of passive verb phrases for selected texts
 from the Brown corpus of written American English (Francis &amp; Kucera 1964)
 and the comparable LOB corpus of written British English (Johansson et al. 1978).

Frequency counts of passive verb phrases in the Brown and LOB corpora — BrownLOBPassives

A data frame with 622 rows and the following columns:
<dl>
 <dt><code>id</code>:</dt>
<dd>a unique ID for each text (character)</dd>

 <dt><code>passive</code>:</dt>
<dd>number of passive verb phrases</dd>

 <dt><code>n_w</code>:</dt>
<dd>total number of words in the genre category</dd>

 <dt><code>n_s</code>:</dt>
<dd>total number of sentences in the genre category</dd>

 <dt><code>cat</code>:</dt>
<dd>genre category code (<code>A</code> ... <code>R</code>; factor)</dd>

 <dt><code>genre</code>:</dt>
<dd>descriptive label for the genre category (factor)</dd>

 <dt><code>lang</code>:</dt>
<dd>descriptive label for the genre category</dd>

 
</dl>

Stephanie Evert (<a href='https://purl.org/stephanie.evert'>https://purl.org/stephanie.evert</a>)

BrownLOBPassives: Frequency counts of passive verb phrases in the Brown and LOB corpora

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