[NCLUG] looking for patterns in text

[Mike Cullerton]

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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