Welcome to Work of the Week. Each Monday, we will post a list of the ten most frequent words in a well-known work of fiction or non-fiction, along with a count of the number of times each word occurred. The challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to figure out what the work for the week is. At the end of the week, we\u2019ll post the answer along with the ten most frequent words from another work.<\/p>\n
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\u00b7 <\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span>Most of the works we\u2019ve chosen were written in English, but a few are widely read translations into English.<\/p>\n \u00b7 <\/span><\/span><\/span>The function words (pronouns, prepositions, auxiliary verbs, etc.) have been removed. These words would dominate the top ten lists but are usually uninformative. <\/p>\n \u00b7 <\/span><\/span><\/span>If a top ten word would completely give away the name of the work, e.g., the word Moby,<\/em> we\u2019ve deleted it manually.<\/p>\n \u00b7 <\/span><\/span><\/span>If a word occurred in different forms, e.g., spear<\/em> and spears<\/em>, or throw<\/em> and threw<\/em>, the forms have been merged together for the count.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Here\u2019s are the ten most frequent words, with their counts, from this week\u2019s work:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n man 510<\/p>\n scout 374<\/p>\n eye 349<\/p>\n heyward 343<\/p>\n duncan 303<\/p>\n make 294<\/p>\n indian 281<\/p>\n place 251<\/p>\n uncas 244<\/p>\n long 242<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Can you identify this work?<\/p>\n Except for the deletion of words like Moby, the lists have been automatically generated by programs written by students in the Computational Linguistics Certificate Program<\/a> at Montclair State University from texts obtained from Project Gutenberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Welcome to Work of the Week. Each Monday, we will post a list of the ten most frequent words in a well-known work of fiction or non-fiction, along with a count of the number of times each word occurred. The challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to figure out what the work for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":113057,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-259_linguistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/linguistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/linguistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/linguistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/linguistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/linguistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/linguistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/linguistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/linguistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/linguistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/linguistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}