1. LING/C SC 581: Advanced Computational Linguistics
Lecture Notes
Feb 20th

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Announcement: I'm sick so this is going to be a very lecture
Surprised so many of you submitted the optional homework 6 …

3. Homework 6 review Read the review paper:
Zipf’s word frequency law in natural language: A critical review and future directions, Piantadosi, S.
Psychon Bull Rev October ; 21(5): 1112–1130.
Optional Homework 6
Using Python and our ptb WSJ corpus, compute and graph frequency against rank
Use pyplot
In your opinion, does our WSJ corpus obey Zipf's Law?

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