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This is the final project for Research Tools and Techniques class which aims to determine whether Charles Dickens' was able to improve his vocabulary as he kept writing.

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In the frequencies folder the word lists of the each novel can be found under the same name of the novel. The files present in the folder gives us a glimpse of how many words he had used and how often he used them.

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In the charts folder the visualization of the most frequent 100 words from each novel can be seen. 


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The corpora consist of five novels published at different times to see the flow of improvement in the author's vocabulary. 

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Publication dates can be found the dates_of_publication.txt

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To see how it works please read the howto.txt