Jon Orwant
Sr. Engineering Director, Operations Research and Compiler Research. Prior to Google, Dr. Orwant was director of research for France Telecom and CTO of O'Reilly Media. He received his BS, MS, and PhD from MIT.
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A Dataset of Syntactic-Ngrams over Time from a Very Large Corpus of English Books
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Yoav Goldberg
Second Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, Association for Computational Linguistics, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (2013), pp. 241-247
Google+ Ripples: A Native Visualization of Information Flow
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Jack Hebert
Geoffrey Borggaard
Alison Cichowlas
Jonathan Feinberg
Christopher Wren
Proceedings of the 22nd International World Wide Web Conference (2013), pp. 1389-1398
Programming Perl
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Tom Christiansen
brian d foy
Larry Wall
O'Reilly, 1005 Gravenstein Highway North Sebastopol, CA 95472 (2012)
Syntactic Annotations for the Google Books Ngram Corpus
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Yuri Lin
Jean-Baptiste Michel
Erez Lieberman Aiden
William Brockman
Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Volume 2: Demo Papers (ACL '12) (2012)
Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books
Jean-Baptiste Michel
Yuan Kui Shen
Aviva Presser Aiden
Adrian Veres
Matthew K. Gray
The Google Books Team
Joseph P. Pickett
Dale Holberg
Dan Clancy
Steven Pinker
Martin A. Nowak
Erez Lieberman Aiden
Science (2010)
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We constructed a corpus of digitized texts containing about 4% of all books ever printed. Analysis of this corpus enables us to investigate cultural trends quantitatively. We survey the vast terrain of ‘culturomics,’ focusing on linguistic and cultural phenomena that were reflected in the English language between 1800 and 2000. We show how this approach can provide insights about fields as diverse as lexicography, the evolution of grammar, collective memory, the adoption of technology, the pursuit of fame, censorship, and historical epidemiology. Culturomics extends the boundaries of rigorous quantitative inquiry to a wide array of new phenomena spanning the social sciences and the humanities.
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