2010/12/22

"In 500 Billion Words, New Window on Culture" from New York Times

"With little fanfare, Google made a mammoth database culled from nearly 5.2 million digitized books available to the public for free downloads and online searches, opening a new landscape of possibilities for research and education in the humanities."

"Despite the frequent resistance to quantitative analysis in some corners of the humanities, Mr.Pinker said he was confident that the use of this and similar tools would "become universal."

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