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Use SUBTLEX for German, but OpenSubtitles for Greek

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In German and Greek, SUBTLEX and Hermit Dave turn out to have been
working from the same source data. I looked at the quality of how they
processed the data, and chose SUBTLEX for German, and Dave's wordlist
for Greek.
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Rob Speer 2015-09-04 15:52:21 -04:00
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@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ at least 3 different sources of word frequencies:
──────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────
Arabic ar │ - - Yes Yes Yes Yes
German de │ - Yes Yes Yes Yes[1] Yes
Greek el │ - Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Greek el │ - - Yes Yes Yes Yes
English en │ Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Spanish es │ - - Yes Yes Yes Yes
French fr │ - - Yes Yes Yes Yes
@ -252,6 +252,10 @@ Twitter; it does not display or republish any Twitter content.
Methods, 41 (4), 977-990.
http://sites.google.com/site/borisnew/pub/BrysbaertNew2009.pdf
- Brysbaert, M., Buchmeier, M., Conrad, M., Jacobs, A. M., Bölte, J., & Böhl, A.
(2015). The word frequency effect. Experimental Psychology.
http://econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/abs/10.1027/1618-3169/a000123?journalCode=zea
- Cai, Q., & Brysbaert, M. (2010). SUBTLEX-CH: Chinese word and character
frequencies based on film subtitles. PLoS One, 5(6), e10729.
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0010729

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@ -23,9 +23,10 @@ CONFIG = {
'pt', 'ru', 'tr'
],
'opensubtitles': [
# All languages where the most common word in OpenSubtitles
# appears at least 5000 times
'ar', 'bg', 'bs', 'ca', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'et',
# This list includes languages where the most common word in
# OpenSubtitles appears at least 5000 times. However, we exclude
# German, where SUBTLEX has done better processing of the same data.
'ar', 'bg', 'bs', 'ca', 'cs', 'da', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'et',
'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'he', 'hr', 'hu', 'id', 'is', 'it', 'lt', 'lv',
'mk', 'ms', 'nb', 'nl', 'pl', 'pt', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sl', 'sq',
'sr', 'sv', 'tr', 'uk', 'zh'
@ -39,7 +40,7 @@ CONFIG = {
# Russian, Spanish, and (Simplified) Chinese.
],
'subtlex-en': ['en'],
'subtlex-other': ['de', 'el', 'nl', 'zh'],
'subtlex-other': ['de', 'nl', 'zh'],
},
# Subtlex languages that need to be pre-processed
'wordlist_paths': {