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n-Gram Statistics for Natural Language Understanding and Text Processing.

C Y Suen1

  • 1SENIOR MEMBER, IEEE, Department of Computer Science, Concordia University, Montreal, P.Q., Canada; Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambri.

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
|August 27, 2011
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This study analyzes English n-gram statistics (n=1-5) from a 1 million word corpus for natural language understanding. Findings detail n-gram distributions, word length, and frequency trends, aiding text processing applications.

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Area of Science:

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Statistical Linguistics

Background:

  • N-gram statistics are crucial for understanding language patterns.
  • Previous research has explored various linguistic properties using corpora.
  • A comprehensive analysis of n-gram statistics is needed for advanced NLP applications.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To derive and analyze n-gram (n=1-5) statistics for the English language.
  • To explore the applications of these statistics in natural language understanding and text processing.
  • To compare findings with existing literature and other corpora.

Main Methods:

  • Computed n-gram statistics (n=1-5) from a 1 million word English corpus.
  • Derived similar properties from the most frequent 1000 words of three additional corpora.
  • Analyzed positional distributions, word length statistics, and n-gram frequency trends.

Main Results:

  • Detailed positional distributions of n-grams were obtained.
  • Statistical relationships between word length and n-gram frequencies were presented.
  • N-gram statistics were compared with existing literature and other datasets.

Conclusions:

  • The derived n-gram statistics provide valuable insights for natural language processing.
  • Positional distributions and frequency trends offer a deeper understanding of English language structure.
  • This research contributes to the foundational data for computational linguistics and text analysis.