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<ref name=friends>Jan Hajič, Eva Hajičová. [http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-540-74628-7_2#page-1 ''Some of Our Best Friends Are Statisticians'']</ref>
<ref name=friends>Jan Hajič, Eva Hajičová. [http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-540-74628-7_2#page-1 ''Some of Our Best Friends Are Statisticians'']</ref>


== Available Sources of Large Data ==
=== Monolingual ===
Google n-grams, Google book n-grams, Common Crawl + Moses n-grams
=== Parallel ===
OPUS
EU


token vs. type
token vs. type
== Obtaining More Data ==
=== Crowdsourcing ===
=== Social Media ===
== Zipf's Law ==


== References ==
== References ==


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Revision as of 16:17, 23 February 2015

There seems to be a universal rule for (not only) statistical methods in NLP: More data is better data.

Translation systems have at their disposal (orders of magnitude) more training data than a person reads in a lifetime[1].

[2]

[3]

Available Sources of Large Data

Monolingual

Google n-grams, Google book n-grams, Common Crawl + Moses n-grams

Parallel

OPUS

EU

token vs. type

Obtaining More Data

Crowdsourcing

Social Media

Zipf's Law

References

  1. ↑ Philipp Koehn. Inaugural lecture.
  2. ↑ A. Halevy, P. Norvig, F. Pereira. The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data
  3. ↑ Jan Hajič, Eva Hajičová. Some of Our Best Friends Are Statisticians