Wissenschaftler bewerfen Google Books mit Schmutz

Genügt wohl nicht, wenn ich es kritisiere?

Pechenick EA, Danforth CM, Dodds PS (2015) Characterizing the Google Books Corpus: Strong Limits to Inferences of Socio-Cultural and Linguistic Evolution. PLoS ONE 10(10): e0137041
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0137041

“Overall, our findings call into question the vast majority of existing claims drawn from the Google Books corpus, and point to the need to fully characterize the dynamics of the corpus before using these data sets to draw broad conclusions about cultural and linguistic evolution.”

Via
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2015/10/research_suggests_google_books_isn_t_as_helpful_as_some_believed.html

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