Category Archives: Reading and Writing Electronic Text

Reading and Writing Electronic Text – Final Project

新しい言葉 (New Words) A method for generating phonetically unique words from a corpus of existing words in the Japanese language. —resulting in words that are statistically similar to Japanese. (project proposal) This project was also presented as a final project for Learning … Continue reading

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Reading and Writing Electronic Text – Final Project Proposal

Creating new Japanese-like words My personal interest in the Japanese language began long ago as a freshman in high school. By chance my public school had participated in a teacher exchange program and I had the opportunity to study Japanese with … Continue reading

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Reading and Writing Electronic Text – Midterm Project

Midterm Project (Sapphic stanza and fragmented text) While considering some of the different methods for generating poetry and text in our readings I was reminded of the Ancient Greek poet Sappho (630 – 570 BC). One of the things that … Continue reading

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Reading and Writing Electronic Text – NLTK

An Introductory Experiment with NLTK (Natural Language Toolkit for Python) Let me start by saying that while it was my every intention to play with Sets and Dictionaries and Comprehensions… I somehow could not escape the allure of NLTK and … Continue reading

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Reading and Writing Electronic Text – UNIX Text

UNIX Text processing For our first assignment in Reading and Writing Electronic Text we attempted a simple program in Python styled after a UNIX command line text processing command like “grep”. I first wrote a few simple programs that would … Continue reading

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