Linguistic Variation and Change in 250 Years of English Scientific Writing: A Data-Driven Approach.

Front Artif Intell · 2020 · PMC7861277 · PMID 33733190

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Ngram models (both lemma and POS-based) point to an overall trend of consolidation in linguistic usage.

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