2015-02-07

Computational Linguistics at the Tip of your Fingers

How often do certain terms show up in literature? Google's N-grams are the result of millions of scanned books. It is a great research tool for scholars. Here is the literary use of the terms Hindu, Veda, Vedas, Buddha, Buddhism since 1800:

Here is a comparison of the terms Yoga, Ayurveda and Jyotish since the 1920's:

And here is the variants on the terms used for Vedic Astrology over the last two hundred years:
 This next one I looked at some Sanskrit words that have become natural in English:

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