Jamal Awil

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Google Books corpus has strong limits for cultural inference [fact]

Pechenick, Eitan Adam, Christopher M. Danforth, and Peter Sheridan Dodds. “Characterizing the Google Books Corpus: Strong Limits to Inferences of Socio-cultural and Linguistic Evolution.” PLoS ONE 10, no. 10 (2015): e0137041.

XREF: This connects to ongoing debates about the reliability of large digital corpora for studying cultural and linguistic change, a core concern for any researcher using n-gram or corpus methods.

Andrew deWaard, Derivative Media, loc. 1369