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LexiStats

Retrieve the frequency of ngrams (1-4) derived from a corpus

This endpoint returns frequencies of ngrams of size 1-4. That is the number of times a word (ngram size = 1) or words (ngram size > 1) appear in the corpus. Ngrams are case sensitive ("I AM" and "I am" will have different frequency) and frequencies are calculated per word (true case) so "the book" and "the books" are two different ngrams. The results can be filtered based on query parameters. <br> <br> Parameters can be provided in PATH, GET or POST (form or json). The parameters in PATH are overridden by parameters in GET, POST and json (in that order). In PATH, individual options are separated by semicolon and values are separated by commas (where multiple values can be used). <br> <br> Example for bigrams (ngram of size 2):

  • PATH: /tokens=a word,another word

  • GET: /?tokens=a word&tokens=another word

  • POST (json):

      {
          "tokens": ["a word", "another word"]
      }
    

Either "tokens" or "contains" has to be provided. <br> <br> Some queries with "contains" or "sort" can exceed the 30s timeout, in which case the API will return an error message with status code 503. You mitigate this by providing additional restrictions such as "minFrequency" and "maxFrequency". <br> <br> You can use the parameters "offset" and "limit" to paginate through large result sets. For convenience, the HTTP header "Link" is set on the response to provide links to "first", "self", "next", "prev" and "last" pages of results (depending on the context). For example, if the result set contains 50 results and the parameter "limit" is set to 25, the Links header will contain an URL for the first 25 results and the next 25 results. <br> <br> Some libraries such as python's requests can parse the header automatically and offer a convenient way of iterating through the results. For example:

    while url:
        r = requests.get(url)
        r.raise_for_status()
        for item in r.json()['results']:
          yield item
        url = r.links.get('next', {}).get('url')
get/stats/frequency/ngrams/{source_lang}/{corpus}/{ngram-size}/

Path parameters

source_langstring required

IANA language code

corpusstring required

For corpora other than 'nmc' (New Monitor Corpus) please contact api@oxforddictionaries.com

ngram-sizestring required

the size of ngrams requested (1-4)

Query parameters

tokensstring

List of tokens to filter. The tokens are separated by spaces, the list items are separated by comma (e.g., for bigrams (n=2) tokens=this is,this was, this will)

containsstring

Find ngrams containing the given token(s). Use comma or space as token separators; the order of tokens is irrelevant.

punctuationstring

Flag specifying whether to lookup ngrams that include punctuation or not (possible values are "true" and "false"; default is "false")

formatstring

Option specifying whether tokens should be returned as a single string (option "google") or as a list of strings (option "oup")

minFrequencyinteger

Restrict the query to entries with frequency of at least minFrequency

maxFrequencyinteger

Restrict the query to entries with frequency of at most maxFrequency

minDocumentFrequencyinteger

Restrict the query to entries that appear in at least minDocumentFrequency documents

maxDocumentFrequencyinteger

Restrict the query to entries that appera in at most maxDocumentFrequency documents

collatestring

collate the results by wordform, trueCase, lemma, lexicalCategory. Multiple values can be separated by commas (e.g., collate=trueCase,lemma,lexicalCategory).

sortstring

sort the resulting list by wordform, trueCase, lemma, lexicalCategory, frequency, normalizedFrequency. Descending order is achieved by prepending the value with the minus sign ('-'). Multiple values can be separated by commas (e.g., sort=lexicalCategory,-frequency)

offsetinteger

pagination - results offset

limitinteger

pagination - results limit

Headers

app_idstring required

App ID Authentication Parameter

app_keystring required

App Key Authentication Parameter

Response

Successful response.

metadataobject

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