Hi David,
you might wish to discard the 1000 most frequently used words from your
list:
English: http://web1.d25.k12.id.us/home/curriculum/fuw.pdf
German: http://german.about.com/library/blwfreq01.htm
Another approach is statistical - take the whole text, sort words by
their frequency (count) of appearance in the text. If you put them on a
graph you would notice characteristic 'power law' distribution. Set the
absolute or relative frequency or count value at which to cut the tail.
This tail is what holds all the rare or interesting words of the text.
For example if the text is large you may discard the first 500-1000
words in the list sorted by word count. All words that remain should be
the ones that are more-less interesting.
The easy way produce such a frequency list is by using arrays. The
principle is like this:
local arrayWords
repeat for each word myWord in theText
add 1 to arrayWords[myWord]
end repeat
now the keys are words and values are word counts in arrayWords.
Best wishes
Viktoras
David Bovill wrote:
Is there a resource/ index that any one knows of for plain uninteresting
dull words. I want to take arbitrary chunks of text and search for
"interesting" words - that is domain specific words that might be useful to
links to create dictionary entries. This would mean creating a list of words
and stripping "the" "it" etc. I am imagining it working like a spelling
dictionary with the ability to manually edit entries - but I'd like a good
starting list? Not sure what to search for :)
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