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Is there any dataset or api that gives a list of infrequent words? [closed]

I'm actually working on an information retrieval project, and I want to extract words that are of significance from a sentence. This is somewhat opposite to stopwords. In a sentence like: He was a ...
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1answer
610 views

Euclidean Distance b/t unit vectors or cosine similarity where vectors are document vectors

I was reading Similarity Measures and suddenly my whole world was falling apart. I have implemented a search engine using clustering techniques. For clustering, I used k means which uses Euclidean ...
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0answers
61 views

Software library for Hidden Markov Modeling of a large text database

Given we have a large database of texts (e.g. product descriptions) and we want to extract multiple types of information (e.g. brand, release date, features, price, etc.) what's a good library to ...
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2answers
201 views

Understanding and applying sentiment analysis

I was just having been assigned a project of conducting sentiment analysis for some document collections. By Googling, a lot of sentiment-related research has popped up. My questions are: What are ...
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0answers
232 views

Similarity calculations for arrays

First of all, my apologies if I mess up the terminology. I've been out of math for several years, so I'm certain I'm going to use terms incorrectly. Also, though I concentrated mathematics in college, ...
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2answers
667 views

Comparing cosine similarities for tf-idf vectors for documents with different length

I'm computing cosine similarities between 2 vectors. These vectors are information retrieval query and document representations respectively. They have been computed using tf-idf weights. Since my ...
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6answers
878 views

Statistical classification of text

I'm a programmer without statistical background, and I'm currently looking at different classification methods for a large number of different documents that I want to classify into pre-defined ...