What does「新聞っぽい曜日」mean? Newspaperish? Commonplace? Routine?


This is a practice problem from a textbook on natural language processing:

> やってみよう:ブラウンコーパスのニュースとロマンスの 2 つのジャンルのデータを利用して、 **どの曜日がもっとも新聞っぽく**
> 、どの曜日がもっともロマンチックかを調べてみよう。

"Which day of the week is newspaperish?"  
  
I know what っぽい、新聞、曜日 all mean, but I don't know what 新聞っぽい曜日 means and I know
what the problem is asking, it's just such a strange phrase I can't make a
translation out of it. You're supposed to count occurrences of the words
[Monday, Tuesday, ..., Sunday] from the two text files, news clippings and
romance novels, and then just see which genre has the larger relative count of
a given 曜日語. I think the conclusion is supposed to be something like
"月曜日はロマンチックではなく新聞っぽい曜日だ". But besides this mechanical understanding of the
problem, the notion of 新聞っぽい曜日 is hard to translate. The best I can come up
with is "the day of the week that is the most readily associated with the type
of sentiment that might be typical of newspaper writings". Or maybe this just
a poor choice of words on the part of the author?




It does not seem to me that you have any trouble translating the sentence in
question, but here is my translation.

> やってみよう:ブラウンコーパスのニュースとロマンスの 2
> つのジャンルのデータを利用して、どの曜日がもっとも新聞っぽく、どの曜日がもっともロマンチックかを調べてみよう。
>
> Try this: Using the data of the genres News and Romance in the Brown Corpus,
> find out which day of the week is the most newspaper-ish and which day is
> the most romantic.

I think that you are wondering whether there is more meaning in 新聞っぽい than
just “newspaper-ish.” No, it is just a made-up phrase and it does not have any
hidden meaning.

I do not think that it is logical to call the day of the week whose name
appears the most frequently in a corpus based on news articles as “the most
newspaper-ish day of the week,” but I would assume that the author is joking
here.




It does not seem to me that you have any trouble translating the sentence in
question, but here is my translation.

> やってみよう:ブラウンコーパスのニュースとロマンスの 2
> つのジャンルのデータを利用して、どの曜日がもっとも新聞っぽく、どの曜日がもっともロマンチックかを調べてみよう。
>
> Try this: Using the data of the genres News and Romance in the Brown Corpus,
> find out which day of the week is the most newspaper-ish and which day is
> the most romantic.

I think that you are wondering whether there is more meaning in 新聞っぽい than
just “newspaper-ish.” No, it is just a made-up phrase and it does not have any
hidden meaning.

I do not think that it is logical to call the day of the week whose name
appears the most frequently in a corpus based on news articles as “the most
newspaper-ish day of the week,” but I would assume that the author is joking
here.

