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Whose speech is the most unusual in terms of parts-of-speech?

In the following table, the higher the score (χ²), the more unusual the proportions of different parts-of-speech are.

Rocky550.03**
Grace247.35**
Computer203.65**
Stratt169.57**
Dr. Lokken96.51**
Leclerc61.13**
Dimitri51.47**
Sandra Elias51.22**
Bob Redell40.82**
Ms. Xi36.27**
Theodore Canton35.47**
DuBois34.59**
Ilyukhina33.48**
Steve Hatch32.82**
Dr. Browne31.24**
Dr. Lamai24.85
Justice Spencer19.16
Yáo14.90
Minister Voigt12.61
Easton12.31
Forrester11.62
Marissa9.21

Those marked ** have a p-value < 0.01.

In a future beanbag, we’ll break down which parts-of-speech are unusual for certain characters.

Part-of-speech tagging was done with spaCy. The tagging uses Universal POS tags.

Tags PUNCT, SPACE, SYM, and X were ignored.

Only speakers with 100 or more tokens were considered.

The score χ² = Σ (O-E)²/E where O is the observed count and E is the expected count (based on the proportions across all speakers).