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Word Count

Soumis par Simon Brousseau le mar, 06/08/2010 - 14:17

Auteur·e·s:

Brousseau, Simon

Fiche simple

Word Count est une oeuvre qui offre à l'internaute un moyen de visualiser la fréquence d'usage des mots de la langue anglaise. Il peut, grâce à l'interface graphique développée par l'artiste, vérifier le rang d'un mot, selon sa fréquence d'utilisation. L'oeuvre propose ainsi une liste des 86 800 mots les plus utilisés en anglais.

Word Count

Média:

Internet

Année:

2003

http://wordcount.org/

Infos

Date de dernière consultation de l'oeuvre:

08 Juin 2010

Coordonnées de l'artiste:

jjh@number27.org

Groupe de recherche:
NT2

Taxonomies

Nature:

Oeuvre

Interactivité:

Capteur de position, Insertion de texte, Navigation à choix multiples

Format:

Base de données/répertoire, Graphique, Image, Image animée, Moteur de recherche, Texte, Texte animé

Thème:

Dictionnaire, Langage, Statistique, Visualisation

Média:

Internet

Année:

2003

Langue(s) de l'oeuvre:

Anglais

Traitement numérique des ressources:

Flash 10

Discours (notes)

«WordCount™ is an artistic experiment in the way we use language. It presents the 86,800 most frequently used English words, ranked in order of commonness. Each word is scaled to reflect its frequency relative to the words that precede and follow it, giving a visual barometer of relevance. The larger the word, the more we use it. The smaller the word, the more uncommon it is. WordCount data currently comes from the British National Corpus®, a 100 million word collection of samples of written and spoken language from a wide range of sources, designed to represent an accurate cross-section of current English usage. WordCount includes all words that occur at least twice in the BNC®. In the future, WordCount will be modified to track word usage within any desired text, website, and eventually the entire Internet. WordCount was designed with a minimalist aesthetic, to let the information speak for itself. The interface is clean, basic and intuitive. The goal is for the user to feel embedded in the language, sifting through words like an archaeologist through sand, awaiting the unexpected find. Observing closely ranked words tells us a great deal about our culture. For instance, “God” is one word from “began”, two words from “start”, and six words from “war”. Another sequence is "america ensure oil opportunity". Conspiracists unite! As ever, the more one explores, the more is revealed. Some of the best sequences people have sent me are here.» (http://wordcount.org/about.html)