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We decided to keep the casing, as it is useful for some applications such as named entity recognition. Regarding the punctuation, as pointed out in another com
by exgrv 9y ago
We decided to keep the casing, as it is useful for some applications such as named entity recognition.
Regarding the punctuation, as pointed out in another comment, these tokens might also be useful for some applications (and they are easy to filter out if you don't need them).
- sp332 9y agoIn the Tagalog file, } is near the top but { is over 8,000 lines down. Is there a reason they have such different frequencies? ( and ) are right next to each other. And yes I realize this is a really odd question :)
- jauntbox 9y agoYour comment has twice as many ) as it does ( My first guess would be emojis ;)
- exgrv 9y agoThis is probably due to our preprocessing of Wikipedia that did not get rid of all the '}' from the markup.
- sp332 9y agoOh true. I tried to clean up Wiki markup for ML years ago and it was a huge pain. Next time I think I'll parse the HTML version and pull out the text from the tags explicitly.
- mkl 9y agoThis is a much better way to do it. It's easier, cleaner, and gets the text which is generated by templates, which there is a surprising amount of (you get weird artifacts from that otherwise).