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Questions tagged [words]
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Split sentence into words but having trouble with the punctuations in C#
I have seen a few similar questions but I am trying to achieve this.
Given a string, str="The moon is our natural satellite, i.e. it rotates around the Earth!"
I want to extract the words and store them in an array.
The expected array elements…
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Generating random words in Java?
I wrote up a program that can sort words and determine any anagrams. I want to generate an array of random strings so that I can test my method's runtime.
public static String[] generateRandomWords(int numberOfWords){
String[] randomStrings = new…
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Finding the most popular words in a list
I have a list of words:
words = ['all', 'awesome', 'all', 'yeah', 'bye', 'all', 'yeah']
And I want to get a list of tuples:
[(3, 'all'), (2, 'yeah'), (1, 'bye'), (1, 'awesome')]
where each tuple is...
(number_of_occurrences, word)
The list should…
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Calculating a relative Levenshtein distance - make sense?
I am using both Daitch-Mokotoff soundexing and Damerau-Levenshtein to find out if a user entry and a value in the application are "the same".
Is Levenshtein distance supposed to be used as an absolute value? If I have a 20 letter word, a distance of…
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Vim: Invert string (by words)
This is my string:
"this is my sentence"
I would like to have this output:
"sentence my is this"
I would like to select a few words on a line (in a buffer) and reverse it word by word.
Can anyone help me?
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how to generate list of (unique) words from text file in ubuntu?
I have an ASCII text file. I want to generate a list of all "words" from that file using one or more Ubuntu commands. A word is defined as an alpha-num sequence between delimiters. Delimiters are by default whitespaces but I also want to experiment…
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Calculating frequency of each word in a sentence in java
I am writing a very basic java program that calculates frequency of each word in a sentence so far i managed to do this much
import java.io.*;
class Linked {
public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException {
BufferedReader…
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Can I tell if a std::string represents a number using stringstream?
Apparently this is suposed to work in showing if a string is numerical, for example "12.5" == yes, "abc" == no. However I get a no reguardless of the input.
std::stringstream ss("2");
double d; ss >> d;
if(ss.good())…
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Postgres word_similarity not comparing words
"Returns a number that indicates how similar the first string to the most similar word of the second string. The function searches in the second string a most similar word not a most similar substring. The range of the result is zero (indicating…
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Python regex for finding all words in a string
Hello I am new into regex and I'm starting out with python.
I'm stuck at extracting all words from an English sentence.
So far I have:
import re
shop="hello seattle what have you got"
regex = r'(\w*) '
list1=re.findall(regex,shop)
print list1
This…
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Extract Images and Words with coordinates and sizes from PDF
I've read much about PDF extractions and libraries (as iText) but i just haven't found a solution to extract images and text (with coordinates) from a PDF.
The task is to scan PDF with catalog of products and extract each image. There is an image…
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where can I find a good wordlist
I'm looking for a file that is a wordlist and also is set up by type of word. For example something in this format
Nouns: {
bus
car
deck
elephant
...
}
Adjectives {
awful
bashful
...
}
Advervb {
...
}
Any ideas?
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Regular Expression - Exclude list of words for a name
I'm trying to make a regular expression that accepts this:
Only a-z, 0-9, _ chars, with a minimum length of 3
admin, static, my and www are rejected.
For the first part, I already managed to do it with :
^[a-zA-Z0-9\\_]{3,}$
But I don't know how…
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What's a good measure for classifying text documents?
I have written an application that measures text importance. It takes a text article, splits it into words, drops stopwords, performs stemming, and counts word-frequency and document-frequency. Word-frequency is a measure that counts how many times…
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How do I count the total number of words in a Pandas dataframe cell and add those to a new column?
A common task in sentiment analysis is to obtain the count of words within a Pandas data frame cell and create a new column based on that count. How do I do this?
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