Overall students did quite well with this assignment. I have made comments in the files you submitted, which have now been updated in the subversion repository. To see the changes, open your terminal, change the directory to <myling5200>/students/<yourname>, and type svn update. Replace <myling5200> and <yourname> with the path to your working copy and your username respectively.

UNIX

1. Using the celex.txt file, calculate the ratio of heterosyllabic vs. tautosyllabic st clusters. That is, how frequently do words contain an st cluster that is within a syllable, vs. how frequently they contain an st cluster that spans two syllables. Note that each word contains a syllabified transcription where syllables are surrounded by brackets []. For example, abacus has three syllables, [&][b@][k@s]. You should use grep and bc to calculate the ratio (also compare to the question from hmwk 2 to computer the average number of letters per word for each entry in the devils dictionary). 10 points
    echo "`grep -Ec 's\]\[t' celex.txt` / `grep -Ec '(\[st|st\])' celex.temp `" |bc -l
2. How many entries in the devils dictionary have more than 6 letters? Use grep to find out (5 points)
   grep -Ec '^[A-Z-]{7,}.*, [a-z]{1,3}\.' devilsDictionary.txt

Subversion

For this homework, submit it via subversion by adding it into your own directory. Make at least 2 separate commits. When you are finished, make sure to say so in your log message.

3. Create a new file called hmwk3_<yourname>.txt, and add it to the svn repository. Show the commands you used (5 points)
   pwd #myling5200/students/<myname>
   touch hmwk3_&lt;myname&gt;.txt
   svn add hmwk3_&lt;myname&gt;.txt
   svn commit -m 'adding homework 3 file'
4. Show the log of all changes you made to your homework 3 file. Show the commands you used (5 points)
   pwd #myling5200/students/<myname>
   svn log hmwk3_&lt;myname&gt;.txt
5. Find all log messages pertaining to the slides which contain grep. You will need to use a pipe. Your command should print out not only the line which contains grep, but also the 2 preceding lines. Search the grep manual for “context” to find the appropriate option. (7 points)
   pwd #myling5200
   svn log slides | grep -EiB 'grep'
6. Show the changes to your homework 3 file between the final version and the version before that. Show the commands you used (5 points)
   pwd #myling5200/students/<myname>
   svn diff -r <number>:<number> hmwk3_&lt;myname&gt;.txt

Python

7. Calculate the percentage of indefinite articles in Moby Dick using the NLTK. You can use the percentage function defined in chapter 1.1 (8 points)
   percentage((text1.count('a')) + text1.count('an'), len(text1))
8. Using the dispersion_plot function in the nltk, find 1 word which has been used with increasing frequency in the inaugural address, and one which has been used with decreasing frequency. You can base your decision of increasing vs. decreasing simply by using visual inspection of the graphs. (5 points)
9. Use the random module to generate 2 random integers between 10 and 100, and then calculate the quotient of the first number divided by the second. Make sure to use normal division, not integer division. Look at the help for the random module to find the appropriate function (10 points)
from __future__ import division
import random
print(random.randint(10,100) / random.randint(10,100))

Extra credit:

Use perl and regular expressions to strip the answers from the solutions to homework one. First, download the solution. You might also want to look at a blog entry on perl slurping for hints. (3 extra points)

This homework involves some more practice with regular expressions, as well as using lists with python, and making some word frequency measurements with the NLTK. It covers material up to Sep. 17th.

Regular expressions

1. Use grep to print out all words from the celex.txt file which have a
   frequency of 100 or more, and either start with a-l, or end with m-z. Note that
   the orthography column comes right before the frequency column, so this is
   possible to do using a single regular expression. You should use one grouping
   and several character classes. Hint 1: use negative character classes to avoid
   getting stuff that is in more than one column. Hint 2: Consider what is
   different between the numbers 87 and 99, vs. the numbers 100 and 154.

   Here are some example words which should be included

   • at (starts with a-l)
   • yellow (ends with m-z)

   Here are some example words which should be excluded

   • omega (does not start with a-l, does not end with m-z)
   • abacus (starts with a-l, but has a frequency less than 100

   (10 points)

Python

Create a python script called hmwk4.py, and put all your answers in this file.
You can use comments in the file if you like. Before each answer, print out the
question number, and a brief description. For example:

2. Print the first 10 words from monty python and the holy grail (text6). (3 points)
3. Print the last 20 words from Moby Dick (text1). (4 points)
4. Create a frequency distribution of the holy grail. Store it in the variable
   called moby_dist. (4 points)

5. Print the number of times the word “Grail” occurs in this text (4 points)
6. Print the most frequent word in the Holy Grail. (Hint: note that punctuation is counted as words by the NLTK, so it is possible that the most frequent word might actually be a punctuation mark). (4 points)
7. Create a list which contains the word lengths of each word in the Holy
   Grail(text6). Store it in a variable called holy_lengths. Do the same for Moby
   Dick (text1), and store it in a variable called moby_lengths. (6 points)

8. Create a frequency distribution of word lengths for Moby Dick and The Holy Grail. Store the distributions in variables called moby_len_dist and holy_len_dist respectively. (6 points)
9. Print the most commonly occuring word length for Moby Dick and for The Holy Grail. (Use one command for each) (5 points)
10. Calculate the mean word length for Moby Dick and The Holy Grail. You can use the sum() function to calculate the total number of characters in the text. For example, sum([22, 24, 3]) returns 49. Store the results in variables holy_mean_len and moby_mean_len respectively. (6 points)
11. Create a list of words from Moby Dick which have more than 3 letters, and
    less than 7 letters. Store it in a variable called four_to_six. (8 points)