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... AutomaticThesaurus Discovery. Kluwer.Jaroslava Hlav a cov a and Pavel Rychl´y. 1999. Dispersionof words in a language corpus. In Proc. TSD (TextSpeech Dialogue), pages 321–324.Adam Kilgarriff, ... Center of basic re-search LC536 and in the National Research Pro-gramme II project 2C06009.6 A word sketch is a one-page corpus-derived account of a word’s grammatical and collocation behaviour.7The ... distribution.All the information is available. We can deter-mine, in a large corpus such as the BNC, for eachnoun lemma with more than (say) fifty occurrences,what percentage is plural. We present...
... companies arecalled “growthstocks,” and those ofbad companiesarecalled“value stocks.” Let’sconsiderfor a moment, Wal-Martand Kmart. The formeris finan-cially healthyand universallyadmired, ... withlegendary management, a steadily growing stream of earnings,and a hugepileof cash onhand for emergencies. The latterisasick puppy, having recentlydeclaredbankruptcy due to marginal financialresources ... measure short-term risk by calculating something statisticianscall a “standard deviation” (SD). This can be thought about as the degree of “scatter”of a series of values about the average. For...
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... was the result of a massivecollaborative effort to collect and analyze stock and bond prices. Asresearchers began to examine the aggregate performance of stocksand bonds, it was only natural ... each year. This is the best-case scenario for active-ly managed mutual funds—turn your portfolio over once a year, andyou might—just might—match the index. And that’s before taxes. In a taxable ... explained bythe laws of chance.Are we in Randomovia yet? Almost. If we actually were inRandomovia, we would find that above-average performance does notThe Market Is Smarter Than You Are 79Figure...
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... the S&P 500 was less than infla-tion—that is, it had a negative real return—whereas the EAFE beatinflation handily. You’ll also see that the EAFE beat the S&P 500 by a similar margin ... largestocks. Small companies tend to be insubstantial and fragile. Moreimportantly, they are thinly traded—relatively few shares changehands during an average day, and in a general downturn, a few moti-vated ... can swallow.So what’s a reasonable foreign allocation? Certainly less than 50% ofyour stock pool. For starters, foreign stocks are more volatile, in gen-eral, than domestic stocks on a year-by-year...
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