This lab will give you practice searching through a part-of-speech-tagged corpus.
Upload the final paper as pdf.
It should be called lab1-yoursurname.pdf.
Replace the ??? with your answers.
Which corpus did you use? ???
Q1: (3)
Here's a list of some wordforms that can be nouns, verbs, or
adjectives. For each, determine the frequency of each the wordform
used in each grammatical category. [Only look at these wordforms, not
inflected/derived variants, and don’t worry about other,
e.g. prepositional, uses.]
Word form N freq V freq A freq
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green ??? ??? ???
top ??? ??? ???
fly ??? ??? ???
meet ??? ??? ???
Do these agree with your intuitions?
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Q2: (4)
List some examples of idioms of the type "the Xer the Yer", e.g. "the
more the merrier", the "bigger the better", and show the quer(y|ies)
you used to find them.
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What kind of words appear in the first slot (X)?
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What kind of words appear in the second slot (Y)?
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Do they fall into neat semantic classes?
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Are the classes independent?
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Q3: (3)
It is often claimed that "less" is used with uncountable nouns and
"few" with countable nouns.
Design some queries to test this claim and show the queries and results:
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How accurate is the claim, according to the text in your corpus?
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What would be a more accurate claim?
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Francis Bond <bond@ieee.org> <francis.bond@upol.cz>