They correlated phrases, words, praise and complaints.
The localized electromagnetic correlates of basic phrase building have been previously characterized for spoken language, both in comprehension9 and production8.
The software, developed by SRA, an American firm, can correlate numbers and phrases written in nine languages with financial databases.
An early paper on the subject, written in 2003 by Frank Keller and Mirella Lapata, of Edinburgh and Sheffield Universities, showed that web searches for rare two-word phrases correlated well with the frequency found in traditional corpora, as well as with human judgments of whether those phrases were natural.
Then, phrases correlated with those qualities were identified, and the thousands of transcribed interactions were searched for those phrases.
Over time, RankBrain will learn more about how to appropriately handle these types of queries, correlating certain ambiguous phrases with more concise terms to better understand user intentions.
As discussed in[28], the presence of a phrase boundary typically correlates with the presence of silence, the reset of pitch and energy, and the lengthening of pre-boundary duration.
Although the report had country names redacted, the phrase "Detention Site Blue" correlates with Stare Kiejkuty, where five prisoners were held.
When the GoToMeeting team looked at the relationship between language and sales outcomes, they found that the less-frequently used phrases actually correlated more strongly with sales.
They identified partisan speech this way: "we impute both the partisanship (association with left- or right-wing ideology) and the polarization (distance from the ideological center) of phrases by correlating their frequency of use with the political party of the speaker".
Analyses revealed phrase frequency and familiarity to be highly correlated at either r =.60 or.50, depending on the set of phrases being considered. 1 These correlations are very similar to the correlation found in the present study between phrase frequency and meaningfulness (.61).61
