[NCLUG] looking for patterns in text

[John Gilmore]

My first impulse would be to start with a statistical filter, the same
sort often used to filter spam. "bayes" is the keyword you'd want.

On Mon, 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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