{"id":13071,"date":"2014-06-30T17:35:55","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T21:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/news\/article.php?ArticleID=13071"},"modified":"2019-02-07T13:57:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T18:57:13","slug":"13071_work-of-the-week-week-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/linguistics\/2014\/06\/30\/13071_work-of-the-week-week-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Work of the Week: Week 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

Work of the Week<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Welcome to Week Five 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. At the end of the week, we\u2019ll post the answer along with the ten most frequent words from another work.<\/p>\n

Some caveats:<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0Most of the works we\u2019ve chosen were written in English, but a few are widely read translations into English.<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0 <\/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\u00a0 <\/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\u00a0 <\/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

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Here is the answer for Week Four\u2019s \u201cWork of the Week\u201d. See if you guessed right!:<\/p>\n

en 344<\/p>\n

de 298<\/p>\n

tom 293<\/p>\n

wilson 221<\/p>\n

make 163<\/p>\n

dat 155<\/p>\n

man 129<\/p>\n

time 120<\/p>\n

good 102<\/p>\n

house 102<\/p>\n

Answer: The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson by Mark Twain<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Now, here are the ten most frequent words, with their counts, from this week\u2019s work:<\/p>\n

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ago 341<\/p>\n

haue 206<\/p>\n

cassio 194<\/p>\n

oth 182<\/p>\n

des 160<\/p>\n

oh 117<\/p>\n

shall 93<\/p>\n

lord 91<\/p>\n

tis 88<\/p>\n

t 88<\/p>\n

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Can you identify this work? Find out next week!<\/p>\n

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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

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