{"id":13072,"date":"2014-06-30T17:38:06","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T21:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/news\/article.php?ArticleID=13072"},"modified":"2018-11-01T15:14:39","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T19:14:39","slug":"13072_work-of-the-week-week-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/linguistics\/2014\/06\/30\/13072_work-of-the-week-week-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Work of the Week: Week 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Work of the Week<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to our last week of of \u201cWork of the Week\u201d! Each Monday, we&#8217;ve been posting 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 has been to figure out what the work for the week is. At the end of the week, we\u2019ve been posting 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 Five\u2019s \u201cWork of the Week\u201d. See if you guessed right!:<\/p>\n<p>ago 341<\/p>\n<p>haue 206<\/p>\n<p>cassio 194<\/p>\n<p>oth 182<\/p>\n<p>des 160<\/p>\n<p>oh 117<\/p>\n<p>shall 93<\/p>\n<p>lord 91<\/p>\n<p>tis 88<\/p>\n<p>t 88<\/p>\n<p>The Answer: <strong>The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice by William Shakespeare<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for playing along and look out for more installations of &#8220;Work of the Week&#8221; in the future!<\/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 our last week of of \u201cWork of the Week\u201d! Each Monday, we&#8217;ve been posting 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 has been to figure out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":113072,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13072","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\/13072","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=13072"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/linguistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205302,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/linguistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13072\/revisions\/205302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/linguistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/linguistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/linguistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/linguistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}