l555.Corpus

Module l555 :: Class Corpus

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Class Corpus

a class representing a corpus (text). Includes methods for performing several different operations on the corpus such as retrieving words and sentences.

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Method Summary
	`letters(self)` return a list of letters from a corpus object
	`readFile(self, fileName)` slurp in a whole corpus into a string
	`removePunctuation(self)` return text without punctuation from self.text
	`sents(self)` return a list of sentences from a corpus objects
	`toFreqs(self, type, proportional)` return a dictionary of word (default) or letter frequencies The proportional argument, when true, returns a dictionary with frequencies relative to the total number of words in the list
	`typeTokenRatio(self, type)` returns the type token ratio for the corpus, based on either words (default) or letters
	`words(self)` return a list of words from a corpus object

Method Details

letters(self)

return a list of letters from a corpus object

readFile(self, fileName)

slurp in a whole corpus into a string

removePunctuation(self)

return text without punctuation from self.text

sents(self)

return a list of sentences from a corpus objects

toFreqs(self, type='word', proportional=False)

return a dictionary of word (default) or letter frequencies The proportional argument, when true, returns a dictionary with frequencies relative to the total number of words in the list

typeTokenRatio(self, type='word')

returns the type token ratio for the corpus, based on either words (default) or letters

words(self)

return a list of words from a corpus object

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