Word counts

[George Francis]

Hi,
Just for fun I did some word counts on the text for the first 10 books.
Some of the results I got were interesting;

for character names:
'rand' - 8500
'nynaeve' - 4700
'egwene' - 4200
'mat' - 3800
'perrin' - 3200

Interesting that both Mat & Perrin score lower than either Nyn or Eg...

for other items:
'eyes' - 4582
'hair' - 3000
'dress' - 780
'trolloc' - 360
'tea' - 300
'breasts' - 93

I guess it gives you some idea of the relative importance RJ places on
hair, mentioned on average 300 times per book..!

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_and_ Superman away.
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[Matt Schroeder]

Post by George Francis
Hi,
Just for fun I did some word counts on the text for the first 10 books.
Some of the results I got were interesting;
'dress' - 780
'trolloc' - 360
'tea' - 300

These three numbers say so very, very much. Any chance you can do a
pre-LOC and post-LOC count? Just curious.

cheers,
matt.

[g***@yahoo.com]

George Francis wrote:> for character names:> 'rand' - 8500> 'nynaeve' -
4700> 'egwene' - 4200> 'mat' - 3800> 'perrin' - 3200Funny, I find
slightly more for all those words, but the relativesvalues are kept.>
'hair' - 3000For this one, I find less than 1800.> 'trolloc' -
360Remember that trollocs act in bands: I find 450 "trolloc", but
almost1600 "trolloc(s)" (and almost 1500 in the first sox books).

[g***@yahoo.com]

Sorry. This time I previewed it, and it was ok. I'll have to find a
real usenet account and do not let it go stale.

[ataha]

Post by George Francis
Hi,
Just for fun I did some word counts on the text for the first 10 books.
Some of the results I got were interesting;
'rand' - 8500
'nynaeve' - 4700
'egwene' - 4200
'mat' - 3800
'perrin' - 3200
Interesting that both Mat & Perrin score lower than either Nyn or Eg...
'eyes' - 4582
'hair' - 3000
'dress' - 780
'trolloc' - 360
'tea' - 300
'breasts' - 93
I guess it gives you some idea of the relative importance RJ places on
hair, mentioned on average 300 times per book..!

Can you check these ones out too ?

'sniff'
'braid'
'tug'
'bath'
'smooth'

Let's all get a good laugh!
Taha

[ireadRJordan]

Don't forget Hooked Nosed and Snort.

[George Francis]

'sniff' 66
'braid' 271
'tug' 49
'bath' 65
'smoothed' 90

Post by ataha

Post by George Francis
Hi,
Just for fun I did some word counts on the text for the first 10 books.
Some of the results I got were interesting;
'rand' - 8500
'nynaeve' - 4700
'egwene' - 4200
'mat' - 3800
'perrin' - 3200
Interesting that both Mat & Perrin score lower than either Nyn or Eg...
'eyes' - 4582
'hair' - 3000
'dress' - 780
'trolloc' - 360
'tea' - 300
'breasts' - 93
I guess it gives you some idea of the relative importance RJ places on
hair, mentioned on average 300 times per book..!

Can you check these ones out too ?
'sniff'
'braid'
'tug'
'bath'
'smooth'
Let's all get a good laugh!
Taha

[steveo]

Post by George Francis
'sniff' 66
'braid' 271
'tug' 49
'bath' 65
'smoothed' 90

No way. Can you do word searches with wildcards to catch all the variations
(e.g. "tug*" for tug, tugged, tugging)?

steveo

[Christer Jacobsson]

Post by steveo

Post by George Francis
'sniff' 66
'braid' 271
'tug' 49
'bath' 65
'smoothed' 90

No way. Can you do word searches with wildcards to catch all the variations
(e.g. "tug*" for tug, tugged, tugging)?
steveo

Now I must put in my 5x10**(-2) SEK question. To do word searches, one
must have a online copy of the books. How does one go about obtaining
one? Scanning in a book and process the scanned images so they become
e-documents, e.g. .txt files or are there better ways?

Assume that I have a legally bought hardcopy so I'm not accused
of piracy.

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[Will Frank]

Post by Christer Jacobsson
Now I must put in my 5x10**(-2) SEK question. To do word searches, one
must have a online copy of the books. How does one go about obtaining
one?

There's a web site that's done the work for you...
http://idealseek.no-ip.com/

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fly. At all. Now would be good." --Batman (Bruce Wayne), /Dark Heart/

[Tim Bruening]

Post by ataha

Post by George Francis
Hi,
Just for fun I did some word counts on the text for the first 10 books.
Some of the results I got were interesting;
'rand' - 8500
'nynaeve' - 4700
'egwene' - 4200
'mat' - 3800
'perrin' - 3200
Interesting that both Mat & Perrin score lower than either Nyn or Eg...
'eyes' - 4582
'hair' - 3000
'dress' - 780
'trolloc' - 360
'tea' - 300
'breasts' - 93
I guess it gives you some idea of the relative importance RJ places on
hair, mentioned on average 300 times per book..!

Can you check these ones out too ?
'sniff'
'braid'
'tug'
'bath'
'smooth'

How did you count the words, and how loog did it take you?

[Rajiv Mote]

Post by George Francis
Hi,
Just for fun I did some word counts on the text for the first 10 books.
Some of the results I got were interesting;
'rand' - 8500
'nynaeve' - 4700
'egwene' - 4200
'mat' - 3800
'perrin' - 3200
Interesting that both Mat & Perrin score lower than either Nyn or Eg...
'eyes' - 4582
'hair' - 3000
'dress' - 780
'trolloc' - 360
'tea' - 300
'breasts' - 93
I guess it gives you some idea of the relative importance RJ places on
hair, mentioned on average 300 times per book..!

The results are indeed amusing, but I'm more interested in the
electronic copy you're apparently grepping of the entire Wheel of
Time... As a combined data-mining and WoT geek, the kinds of indexing
that would make possible makes me salivate just a little.

Let's see how Google does on the legality of their "online library,"
and perhaps we'll talk...

[Frank van Schie]

Post by Rajiv Mote
Let's see how Google does on the legality of their "online library,"
and perhaps we'll talk...

Google's library idea has been in practice for the WoT books a long time
now. It's called IdealSeek:
http://idealseek.no-ip.com/

Yeah.

[Christophe Choumert]

Post by Frank van Schie

Post by Rajiv Mote
Let's see how Google does on the legality of their "online library,"
and perhaps we'll talk...

Google's library idea has been in practice for the WoT books a long time
http://idealseek.no-ip.com/

Thanks for the link !

I tried this :
http://idealseek.no-ip.com/IdealSeek.cgi?q=The+Wheel+weaves (82 matches)
The frequence decreases sharply when Moiraine gets out of the picture. :)

But I haven't found a good measure for 'chin' : 'chin' alone is too wide,
'Elayne+chin' too narrow. :(

[NicolasC]

Post by Christophe Choumert

Post by Frank van Schie

Post by Rajiv Mote
Let's see how Google does on the legality of their "online library,"
and perhaps we'll talk...

Google's library idea has been in practice for the WoT books a long time
http://idealseek.no-ip.com/

Thanks for the link !
http://idealseek.no-ip.com/IdealSeek.cgi?q=The+Wheel+weaves (82 matches)
The frequence decreases sharply when Moiraine gets out of the picture. :)
But I haven't found a good measure for 'chin' : 'chin' alone is too wide,
'Elayne+chin' too narrow. :(

I found "one power" 666 times... :)