Google's N-Gram Viewer is great for tracking words and phrases over time.
Online, it will feature interactive elements such as a "screamer" which tracks words per minute and warns when it is being read too fast, as well as tools for explaining aspects of coding.
The 15-strong new words team – out of a staff of 70 at the OED – work year round tracking words in corpuses – electronic text collections containing billions of words – and analysing online databases, as well as material submitted by the public through reading programmes.
In 2008, Google launched Google Insights, an extension to Google Trends, which allowed users to track words and phrases entered into search boxes, analyse results and structure data.
For example it tracks words like "what", "who", and "where", and offers shortcuts to information when you're about to look it up.
In 2003, evolutionary biologists Russell Gray and Quentin Atkinson of the University of Auckland in New Zealand used computational methods from evolutionary biology to track words as they changed over time, and concluded that the Anatolian hypothesis was right.
"We've been tracking words like social media and tweet for years, of course, and now we feel their meanings have stabilized enough to include them in the dictionary".
A separate survey of words used in the media and on the Internet by California-based Global Language Monitor, which uses an algorithm to track words and phrases in the media and on the internet, decided that "hybrid" should be word of the year with "climate change" the top phrase.
China Digital Times tracks words that have been blocked from the search results of Sina Weibo, a popular Chinese social media platform, and other online forums.
A previous behavioural work suggested that listeners shift their learning strategy from tracking words to employing the underlying structure when the signal contains cues that may facilitate this process [11].
