Diatopix is a tool that allows to graphically see the
distribution of words, terms and expressions, etc. in a virtual
web space delimited by a language. The tool uses
Google's custom search engine and divides the results it
receives between the main countries where the language is used
(Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United
States).
Google impose désormais un quota personnel par jour lié à l'adresse d'origine des requêtes.
Nous nous efforçons de trouver une stratégie de contournement.
Merci de votre compréhension.
To see what Diatopix can do, you can launch a query
using the following:
Notes
The tool in itself does not prove anything but it can be used
to confirm intuitions regarding word usage or to explore
research leads that have to do with lexical variants from a
geographical point of view.
In the current state of the tool, Diatopix cannot
handle inflections. This basically means that to have a clear
picture of the distribution of articulated lorry, you
need to query both articulated lorry and articulated
lorries.
Original idea:
Patrick Drouin
Design and Programming:
Benoit Robichaud