text processing with regex

Simple text processing, part 2. First steps with regular expressions (regex) in Python.

Table of contents

• General info
• Technologies
• Setup
• Status
• Get the code

General info

Created as training project to practice regular expressions and process text without external natural language processing tools.

Text source: Lectures on The Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir, 1921, www.gutenberg.org

Actions: extracting longest word&sentence, ten most frequent words, named entities

Technologies

• Python 3.7

Setup

Input data

Input text: Lectures on The Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir, 1921 (Sapir1921_chapter1.txt)

Stopwords list (stopwordlist.txt) to be removed from input text

Status

Project is finished. It was done to excercise regex in Python.

Get the code

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