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In Computational Linguistics , a frequency list is a sorted list of Word s (word types) together with their Frequency , where frequency here usually means the number of occurrences in a given Corpus . A short example could be:










It seems that Zipf's Law holds for frequency lists drawn from longer texts of any natural language. Frequency lists are a necessary prerequisite for building of an electronic dictionary, which is by itself a prerequisite for a wide range of applications in Computational Linguistics .