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In article <1992Oct29.170240.28464@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> cook@cpsin2.cps.msu.edu (Thomas E Cook) writes:
>Can anyone tell me if there is a good English word frequency list
>available online?
>
>Thanks.
>
>--Tom Cook  (cook@cps.msu.edu)

CELEX, the Dutch national Centre for Lexical Information based at the
University of Nijmegen, provides frequency information for British
English derived from the COBUILD corpus of the University of Birmingham.

Raw figures for the frequency of all the types in the corpus are the
most basic frequency information available. More usefully, figures are
also available for the frequency of each wordform (flectional form)
and for the frequency of each lemma (headword, or family of
inflectional forms).  These figures were arrived at by disambiguating
samples of the corpus by hand, then estimating frequencies for the
whole corpus, and calculating the statistical accuracy of those
estimates.

Such figures are available for the whole corpus (17.9 million), the
written part of the corpus (16.6 million words), and the spoken 
part of the corpus (1.3 million), expressed simply as the number of
occurrences in each (sub) corpus. They are also available scaled down 
to what they would have been in a 1 million word corpus (useful
for checking written frequency against spoken frequency, and for
checking this corpus against others, notably Brown and LOB), and
in logarithmic form.

Until recently, CELEX existed to provide researchers at home and abroad
with such information. Some charges were made to fund the continued
existence and development of the centre. The current situation is not
clear, however, and in the near future CELEX data may not be
available to external users. The best thing to do is write to 
Richard Piepenbrock at CELEX who can help you with more information
and news about current usage of CELEX data: RICHARD@CELEX.KUN.NL

Regards,
Gavin.

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