Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	call_v	great_a	river_n	9,026	5	7.1511	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27299	The lives of sundry notorious villains, memorable for their base and abominable actions together with a novel as it really happened at Roan in France.	Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689.	1678 (1678)	Wing B1739; ESTC R18177	53,278	178

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