[NCLUG] looking for patterns in text

Quentin Hartman qhartman at gmail.com
Tue Sep 10 10:45:49 MDT 2013


Yeah, Mike was referring to my previous message. And to answer, only you
can answer that question....

Q


On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Quent Johnson <quent at pobox.com> wrote:

> Sorry; I don't understand the reference.
>
> There's another Quentin on this list so maybe he knows? :-)
>
> On Sep 10, 2013, at 10:19 AM, Mike Cullerton <michaelc at cullerton.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Folks,
> >
> > Thanks for the responses. I love this list.
> >
> > Bayesian classifier is definitely what I needed. Lots of stuff out
> there. Time to start learning...
> >
> > Quent, is a degree in mathematics enough Real Math ™ for you? ;)
> >
> > Again, thanks y'all,
> > Mike
> >
> > On Sep 9, 2013, at 7:54 PM, Quent Johnson <quent at pobox.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I haven't worked with it but there are some natural language processing
> tools for python, like http://nltk.org/
> >>
> >> On Sep 9, 2013, at 4:10 PM, Mike Cullerton <michaelc at cullerton.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hey Folks,
> >>>
> >>> I'm helping a neighbor learn python, and we're using a problem they
> have at work.
> >>>
> >>> They have text they want to parse, and compare to a known standard.
> They want to sort the text based on how similar it is to the standard.
> >>>
> >>> They receive feedback from the public during engineering projects.
> Some of this feedback is original. Some is copy/pasted from form letter
> boilerplate. They'd like to parse the feedback text and sort it based on
> how similar it is to the boilerplate.
> >>>
> >>> I'm guessing there's work out there already on this kind of stuff.
> >>>
> >>> I've done some basic searches, but I'm not getting what I want. I'm
> hoping someone here knows some terms I can use to get started on my
> searching.
> >>>
> >>> Any thoughts welcome.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Mike
> >>>
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