Google creates a tool to probe 'genome' of English words to cultural words by Harvard
A good English is better for all,no one live this world always so why we learn English not?The researchers were also able to trace how words had changed in English, for example a trend that started in the US towards more regular forms of verbs from irregular forms like 'burnt', 'smelt' and spilt. "The forms still cling to life in British English. But the -t irregulars may be doomed in England too: each year,they wrote. America is the world's leading exporter of both regular and irregular verbs.By the mid 20th century, the most famous actors tended to achieve fame at around 20 years of age, while writers had to wait until they are 30 and, for politicians, fame didn't tend to happen until they reached 40 or above. "Science is a poor route to fame. Physicists and biologists eventually reached a similar level of fame as actors but it took them far longer, wrote the researchers,even at their peak, mathematicians tend not to be appreciated by the public. For anyone tracking the cultural spread of specific thinkers, it is worth noting that so bad.
These are just some of the questions that researchers and members of the public can now answer using a new online tool called the "Cultural Observatory" developed by Google with the help of scientists at Harvard University. The massive searchable database is being hailed as the key to a new era of research in the humanities, linguistics and social sciences that has been dubbed "culturomics".
The database comprises more than 5m books – both fiction and non-fiction – published between 1800 and 2000, representing around 4% of all the books ever printed. Dr Jean-Baptiste Michel and Dr Erez Lieberman Aiden of Harvard University have developed the search tool, which they say will give researchers the ability to quantify a huge range of cultural trends in history.
Google creates a tool to probe 'genome' of English words to cultural words by Harvard
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