{"id":13068,"date":"2014-06-30T17:01:53","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T21:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/news\/article.php?ArticleID=13068"},"modified":"2018-11-01T15:08:54","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T19:08:54","slug":"13068_work-of-the-week-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/linguistics\/2014\/06\/30\/13068_work-of-the-week-week-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Work of the Week: Week 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Work of the Week<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Week Two of \u201cWork of the Week\u201d! 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. The following week, we\u2019ll post the answer along with the ten most frequent words from another work.<\/p>\n<p>Some caveats:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Most of the works we\u2019ve chosen were written in English, but a few are widely read translations into English.<\/li>\n<li>The function words (pronouns, prepositions, auxiliary verbs, etc.) have been removed. These words would dominate the top ten lists but are usually uninformative.<\/li>\n<li>If a top ten word would completely give away the name of the work, e.g., the word <em>Moby,<\/em> we\u2019ve deleted it manually.<\/li>\n<li>If a word occurred in different forms, e.g., <em>spear<\/em> and <em>spears<\/em>, or <em>throw<\/em> and <em>threw<\/em>, the forms have been merged together for the count.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here is the answer for Week One\u2019s \u201cWork of the Week\u201d. See if you guessed right!:<\/p>\n<p>man 510<\/p>\n<p>scout 374<\/p>\n<p>eye 349<\/p>\n<p>heyward 343<\/p>\n<p>duncan 303<\/p>\n<p>make 294<\/p>\n<p>indian 281<\/p>\n<p>place 251<\/p>\n<p>uncas 244<\/p>\n<p>long 242<\/p>\n<p>Answer: <strong>The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now, here are the ten most frequent words, with their counts, from this week\u2019s work:<\/p>\n<p>joe 746<\/p>\n<p>look 740<\/p>\n<p>mr 711<\/p>\n<p>think 515<\/p>\n<p>hand 476<\/p>\n<p>time 466<\/p>\n<p>man 374<\/p>\n<p>little 371<\/p>\n<p>pip 342<\/p>\n<p>old 322<\/p>\n<p>Can you identify this work? Come back next week to see if you guessed right!<\/p>\n<p>Except for the deletion of words like Moby, the lists have been automatically generated by programs written by students in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/graduate\/programs-of-study\/computational-linguistics\/\">Computational Linguistics Certificate Program<\/a> at Montclair State University from texts obtained from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/wiki\/Main_Page\">Project Gutenberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work of the Week Welcome to Week Two of \u201cWork of the Week\u201d! 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":113068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13068","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\/13068","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=13068"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/linguistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205297,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/linguistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13068\/revisions\/205297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/linguistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/linguistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/linguistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/linguistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}