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From: ucjtrja@ucl.ac.uk (Dr James Au-Yeung)
Subject: Confusibility of Words
Message-ID: <1995Jun14.144847.45017@ucl.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 14:48:47 GMT
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I'm trying to define how confusing two words are in reading and I 
wish to have some pointers to the area.

Also, I wish to find some literature on the topic of what the probability
of the same word appearing adjacent to each other is or at a number of words
apart.

For example, the probability of the fifth word after 'the' is 'the' in a
corpus or the next 'the' after the current 'the' is at XXX words later with
a YYY degree of certainty.

Any help is very much appreciated.


james

Dept. of Psychology
UCL

email: j.au-yeung@psychol.ucl.ac.uk
