Comments on: Programming A to Z – Assignment #9 Evolvocabulary http://lehrblogger.com/2009/04/09/programming-a-to-z-assignment-9-evolvocabulary/ lehrburger (at) gmail (dot) com Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:06:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jorge Ortiz http://lehrblogger.com/2009/04/09/programming-a-to-z-assignment-9-evolvocabulary/comment-page-1/#comment-3941 Jorge Ortiz Thu, 09 Apr 2009 22:59:43 +0000 http://lehrblogger.com/?p=1106#comment-3941 Very, very cool. I would have filtered out "stop words" (frequently occurring words (like "and", "this", "if", "not", "of", "for", "is", etc) that don't add much meaning). Even better would have been attempting something like Amazon's "Statistically Improbable Phrases", though you would have needed to find some "baseline" corpus. Very, very cool.

I would have filtered out “stop words” (frequently occurring words (like “and”, “this”, “if”, “not”, “of”, “for”, “is”, etc) that don’t add much meaning). Even better would have been attempting something like Amazon’s “Statistically Improbable Phrases”, though you would have needed to find some “baseline” corpus.

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