In my 2007 paper on this subject [*], I gave an overview of (what I believed to be) most of the prominent literature published on the topic up till then. (You might also find my discussion on pp 73-74 of that paper relevant to your question re "analysis of the reasons".)
I'm not up-to-date on anything published since that date, unfortunately.
best
Andrew.
[*] Hardie, A (2007) Part-of-speech ratios in English corpora. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 12(1): 55-81.
-----Original Message----- From: corpora-bounces at uib.no [mailto:corpora-bounces at uib.no] On Behalf Of Karin Cavallin Sent: 12 December 2012 10:01 To: corpora at uib.no Subject: [Corpora-List] Difference in POS tag distribution in different genres
Does anyone know of any study of the difference in (and an analysis of the reasons) part-of-speech tag distribution in different genres? A quick study I made yesterday showed e.g. that my working hypothesis that there are more proper nouns in news paper text than in fiction was correct, at least on the data I examined.
Karin Cavallin PhD Student in Computational Linguistics University of Gothenburg, Sweden
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