"In 1967, Kucera and Nelson Francis published their classic work Computational Analysis of Present-Day American English (1967), known today simply as the Brown Corpus."
This and the whole paragraph are jumbled. The Brown Corpus of Standard American English (q.v.) was compiled from 1961 publications under the direction of W. Nelson Francis and has not been "published," i.e. appeared in print, but circulated only in computer-readable form. Computational analysis of the Brown Corpus was then performed under Henry Kucera's direction, and the resulting book, "Computational Analysis of Present-Day American English" by Kucera and Francis, was indeed published in 1967; this book is not the same as the Brown Corpus, as the Wikipedia article says, but derived from it. When all the words in the computerized corpus had been tagged with their parts of speech, under Francis's supervision, there followed Francis and Kucera's "Frequency Analysis of English Usage: Lexicon and Grammar" (1982).
So I've revised that paragraph in the Wikipedia article to put the facts right.
I'll also be adding an article on W. Nelson Francis before long.
John Francis (Nelson Francis's son)
Jfrancis51 (talk) 17:12, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
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