4.1115 Qs: Sentence length distrib; Cyrillic/Windows (2/39)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Sat, 2 Mar 91 22:14:44 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 1115. Saturday, 2 Mar 1991.

(1) Date: Fri, 1 Mar 91 10:31 EST (25 lines)
From: Jean Veronis <VERONIS@VASSAR>
Subject: Q: sentence length distribution in corpora

(2) Date: Fri, 1 Mar 91 14:24 EST (14 lines)
From: Joanna Johnson <JOHNSON@MCMASTER>
Subject: Cyrillic in Windows-based WordProcessing

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Date: Fri, 1 Mar 91 10:31 EST
From: Jean Veronis <VERONIS@VASSAR>
Subject: Q: sentence length distribution in corpora


Typically, the sentence length distribution in a corpus looks like this:

!
! ***
! * **
! * **
! **
!* ***
! *****
! ********
! ******************
+------------------------------------------------

Obviously, this asymmetric curve is not a normal distribution. Does anybody
know if a mathematical model has been proposed for this distribution
(something analoguous to Zipf's law for word frequency)? Any reference?

Thanks,
Jean Veronis

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Date: Fri, 1 Mar 91 14:24 EST
From: Joanna Johnson <JOHNSON@MCMASTER>
Subject: Cyrillic in Windows-based WordProcessing

Is anyone doing wordprocessing in English and either Greek or
a language that uses Cyrillic under Windows (version 3) on an
IBM-compatible system? Ami Professional and Word are supposed
to be able to do this. Has anyone tried it?

Joanna M. Johnson and Samuel D. Cioran
Humanities Computing Centre, McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
email: JOHNSON@SSCVAX.CIS.MCMASTER.CA or
CIORAN@SSCVAX.CIS.MCMASTER.CA