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Measurement Properties of Subjective Magnitude Estimates of Word Frequency.

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Carroll, John B. – 1971

The subjective magnitude estimation (SME) procedure was used to obtain estimates of relative word frequency from two adult groups (15 lexicographers, 13 other adults) for 60 words ranging widely in objective frequency. Lexicographers rendered more reliable estimates, and their averaged data correlated more highly with objective log frequency than…

Descriptors: Adults, Correlation, Discriminant Analysis, Individual Differences

Behind the Scenes in the Making of a Corpus-Based Dictionary and a Word Frequency Book.

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Carroll, John B. – 1971

The publication next spring of the American Heritage Word Frequency Book and the American Heritage School Dictionary will mark a new advance in the technology of dictionary and word-frequency book construction. The use of high spped computers has enabled the compilers to analyze five million words from a body of materials frequently used in…

Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Dictionaries, Elementary Education, Information Processing