Web Science/Part2: Emerging Web Properties/Simple statistical descriptive Models for the Web/Linguists way of checking simplicity of text

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Web Science/Part2: Emerging Web Properties

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Web Science/Part2: Emerging Web Properties/Simple statistical descriptive Models for the Web/Linguists way of checking simplicity of text

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Linguists way of checking simplicity of text

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Learning goals

1. Get a feeling for interdisciplinary research
2. Know the Automated Readability Index
3. Have a strong sense of support for our research hypothesis
4. Be able to critically discuss the limits of our models

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Find the slide deck at File:Linguists_way_of_checking_simplicity_of_text.pdf

Quiz

Why do we prefer the Automated Readability Index over the Flesh Kincaid Readability test

	it is easier to count
	it is faster to compute
	it has a deeper linguistic insight
	it is more accurate

Further reading

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Discussion

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1. How big is the World Wide Web
   1. Problems with the question about the size of the Web
   2. 3 ways to study the Web
   3. A simplistic descriptive model
   4. An unrealistic, simplistic generative model
   5. Summary, further reading, homework
2. Simple statistical descriptive Models for the Web
   1. Counting Words And Documents
   2. Typical length of a document
   3. How to formulate a research hypothesis
   4. Number of words needed to understand most of Wikipedia
   5. Linguists way of checking simplicity of text
3. Advanced statistical descriptive models for the Web
   1. The Zipf law for text
   2. Visually straight lines on log log plots
   3. Fitting a curve on a log log plot
   4. Zipf law powerlaw or pareto law.webm
4. Modelling Similarity of Text
   1. Similarity Measures and their Applications
   2. Jaccard Similarity for Sets
   3. Cosine Similarity For Vectorspaces
   4. Probabilistic Similarity Measures Kullback Leibler Divergence
   5. Comparing Results of Similarity Merasures
5. Generative Models for the Web
   1. Introduction to generative modelling.webm
   2. Sampling from a probability distribution
   3. Evaluating a generative model
   4. Pittfalls when increasing the number of model parameters
6. Modeling the Web as a graph
   1. Reviewing terms from graph theory
   2. The standard web graph model
   3. Descriptive statistics of the web graph
   4. Topology of the web graph
   5. Modelling-graphs-with-linear-algebra

Number of words needed to understand most of Wikipedia