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Watch out for word bursts

Posted by Paul Miller at 9:56am on Thursday, 20th February 2003

Interesting article about some new research on 'word bursts' in New Scientist. This is basically collecting data about the frequency with which words are used.

"...the method could be applied to weblogs to track new social trends. For example, identifying word bursts in the hundreds of thousands of personal diaries now on the web could help advertisers quickly spot an emerging craze."

I've been thinking about adding a similar feature to the Greenhouse to give us some idea about our own linguistic trends. Any thoughts?

Click here for the full article.

Comments

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Paul, I have an idea about how you can do this. Let me know if this is of interest to you. best azeem
Posted by azeem azeem  at 9:12pm on Friday, 21st February 2003
2
At daypop they are testing this concept http://www.daypop.com/burst/
Posted by ssn ssn  at 9:49am on Tuesday, 25th February 2003

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