Text analysis
Summary
Find patterns and statistics about textual data.Overview
Text analysis involves taking one or more text files (e.g., a poem, a book, a page from a book, and essay, etc.) and processing them to calculate statics or find patterns. Some common text analysis outcomes include:
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- word frequencies
- phrase frequencies
- word clouds (or tag clouds)
- text similarity (how similar are these two pieces of text?)
- language modeling (e.g., take all the poems of Shakespeare and create a new one that sounds like him)
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