Survey on Information Requirements on the Google Books Ngram Corpus

Survey on Information Requirements on the Google Books Ngram Corpus | Research Square window.SnipcartSettings = { analytics: { enabled: false } }; (function() { var accessVector = localStorage.getItem('access_vector') || ''; window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; if (accessVector) { window.dataLayer.push({ user: { profile: { profileInfo: { snid: accessVector } } } }); } })(); (function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start':new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src='https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f);})(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-K279D39R'); Browse Preprints In Review Journals COVID-19 Preprints AJE Video Bytes Research Tools Research Promotion AJE Professional Editing AJE Rubriq About Preprint Platform In Review Editorial Policies Our Team Advisory Board Help Center Sign In Submit a Preprint Cite Share Download PDF review-article Survey on Information Requirements on the Google Books Ngram Corpus Fabian Richter, Federico Matteucci, Peter Reimann, Klemens Böhm This is a preprint; it has not been peer reviewed by a journal. https://doi.org/ 10.21203/rs.3.rs-7487221/v1 This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License Status: Published Journal Publication published 08 Dec, 2025 Read the published version in International Journal of Digital Humanities → Version 1 posted 9 You are reading this latest preprint version Abstract The development of word frequencies over time is the subject of research in different branches of the humanities.Large temporal n-gram corpora have been created for this purpose, most notably the Google Books Ngram Corpus .While the concrete research questions vary between the different research works, there are similarities in the more abstract underlying information requirements, i.e., the structure of queries against a potential database system.Based on a systematic literature review, we extract these information requirements, leading to a categorization of existing articles into macro-areas of information requirements.Furthermore, we collect existing query systems for temporal n-gram corpora and evaluate their expressiveness regarding the information requirements we found. 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