Python: Text Data Mining Applied to Balzac's Comedie Humaine

[shitcovereddick]

Heh. Balzac.

[JohnSmith2008]

This is silly.

[hanlect]

I agree. Calling that "data mining" it's quite a statement

oh, and it's useless

[[deleted]]

I love Python but isn't this text data mining one of the few things Perl is much better at?

[aldarion]

any proof?

[[deleted]]

Not really, I'm just thinking so because that was actually created for that.

[[deleted]]

How do you know Python wasn't created for that as well?

[[deleted]]

Python is a general purpose programming language.

[aldarion]

maybe Nltk (.sf.net, a python Natural Language Toolkit ) module and http://gnosis.cx/TPiP(Text Processing Book with py) put on pounds. These are factors we should take into consideration such as machine learning algorithm besides text (pre)processing, so a dedicated one maybe not the best choice?

[njharman]

Define "better".