Estimation of English and non-English Language Use on the WWW
<|reference_start|>Estimation of English and non-English Language Use on the WWW: The World Wide Web has grown so big, in such an anarchic fashion, that it is difficult to describe. One of the evident intrinsic characteristics of the World Wide Web is its multilinguality. Here, we present a technique for estimating the size of a language-specific corpus given the frequency of commonly occurring words in the corpus. We apply this technique to estimating the number of words available through Web browsers for given languages. Comparing data from 1996 to data from 1999 and 2000, we calculate the growth of a number of European languages on the Web. As expected, non-English languages are growing at a faster pace than English, though the position of English is still dominant.<|reference_end|>
@article{grefenstette2000estimation,
    title={Estimation of English and non-English Language Use on the WWW},
    author={Gregory Grefenstette, Julien Nioche},
    journal={Proceedings of RIAO'2000, "Content-Based Multimedia Information
  Access", Paris, April 12-14,2000, pp. 237-246},
    year={2000},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={cs/0006032},
    primaryClass={cs.CL cs.HC}
}