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From the Ted Talk by Deb Roy: The birth of a word

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Think of mass mdiea as providing common ground and you have the recipe for taking this idea to a whole new place. We've started anaylinzg television content using the same pepicnrlis — analyzing event structure of a TV signal — episodes of shows, commercials, all of the ceptnnooms that make up the event structure. And we're now, with satellite dishes, pulling and analyzing a good part of all the TV being watched in the United States. And you don't have to now go and instrument lniivg rooms with microphones to get people's casnneiovtros, you just tune into publicly available saiocl media feeds.

Open Cloze


Think of mass _____ as providing common ground and you have the recipe for taking this idea to a whole new place. We've started _________ television content using the same __________ — analyzing event structure of a TV signal — episodes of shows, commercials, all of the __________ that make up the event structure. And we're now, with satellite dishes, pulling and analyzing a good part of all the TV being watched in the United States. And you don't have to now go and instrument ______ rooms with microphones to get people's _____________, you just tune into publicly available ______ media feeds.

Solution


  1. living
  2. principles
  3. analyzing
  4. media
  5. conversations
  6. components
  7. social

Original Text


Think of mass media as providing common ground and you have the recipe for taking this idea to a whole new place. We've started analyzing television content using the same principles — analyzing event structure of a TV signal — episodes of shows, commercials, all of the components that make up the event structure. And we're now, with satellite dishes, pulling and analyzing a good part of all the TV being watched in the United States. And you don't have to now go and instrument living rooms with microphones to get people's conversations, you just tune into publicly available social media feeds.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
common ground 4
social graph 4
home video 3
living room 3
event structure 3
gaga guga 2
amazing feedback 2
feedback loops 2
leaving red 2
red ink 2
mass media 2
social media 2
engagement properties 2
memorable moment 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
leaving red ink 2

Important Words


  1. analyzing
  2. commercials
  3. common
  4. components
  5. content
  6. conversations
  7. dishes
  8. episodes
  9. event
  10. feeds
  11. good
  12. ground
  13. idea
  14. instrument
  15. living
  16. mass
  17. media
  18. microphones
  19. part
  20. place
  21. principles
  22. providing
  23. publicly
  24. pulling
  25. recipe
  26. rooms
  27. satellite
  28. shows
  29. signal
  30. social
  31. started
  32. states
  33. structure
  34. television
  35. tune
  36. tv
  37. united
  38. watched