[NCLUG] looking for patterns in text

[Mike Cullerton]

Nice.

On Sep 10, 2013, at 10:45 AM, Quentin Hartman <qhartman at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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