Physics and Language – Harsh Mathur
Date: Thu. October 30th, 2014, 4:30 pm-5:30 pmLocation: Clark Hall 206
What Can We Learn about Language by Reading Millions of Books? (A Baker-Nord Digital Humanities Event) The dramatic growth of linguistic corpora enables the quantitative study of language
The dramatic growth of linguistic corpora enables the quantitative study of language
on a scale that would have been unimaginable even five years ago.
In this talk I will describe what we might learn about language
and its evolution from such studies, using the regularization of verbs as a concrete example.