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Published on: April 1, 2016
Worldlex: Twitter and blog word frequencies for 66 languages
1Université de Poitiers, CeRCA, CNRS, UMR 7295, MSHS, Poitiers, France. manuel.gimenes@univ-poitiers.fr.
Abstract:
Lexical frequency is one of the strongest predictors of word processing time. The frequencies are often calculated from book-based corpora, or more recently from subtitle-based corpora. We present new frequencies based on Twitter, blog posts, or newspapers for 66 languages. We show that these frequencies predict lexical decision reaction times similar to the already existing frequencies, or even better than them. These new frequencies are freely available and may be downloaded from http://worldlex.lexique.org .
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