language sleuthing howto with nltk
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Language Sleuthing HOWTOor
Discovering Interesting Thingswith Python's
Natural Language Tool Kit
Brianna Laugher
modernthings.org brianna[@.]laugher.id.au
why?
Corpus linguistics on web texts
Because the web is full of language data
Because linguistic techniques can reveal unexpected insights
Because I don't want to have to read everything
Like... mailing lists
luv-main as a corpus
√ Big collection of text x Messy data x Not annotated
what's interesting?
conversations
topics
change over time
(authors)
Step 1:
get the data
wget vs Python script
√ wget is purpose-built
√ convenient options like --convert-links
Meaningful URLs FTW
Sympa/MhonArc:
lists.luv.asn.au/wws/arc/luv-main/2009-04/
msg00057.html
Step 2:
clean the data
Cleaning for what?
Remove archive boilerplate
Remove HTML
Remove quoted text?
Remove signatures?
J.W.
J.W.
W.E.
Behind the scenes
J.W.
W.E.
what are we aiming for?
what do NLTK corpora look like?
Getting NLTK
sudo apt-get install python-nltk
in Ubuntu 10.04
or
sudo apt-get install python-pip
pip install nltk
or from source at nltk.org/download
Getting NLTK data...
an “NLTKism”
NLTK corpora types
Brown corpus
A CategorizedTagged corpus:
Dear/jj Sirs/nns :/: Let/vb me/ppo begin/vb by/in clearing/vbg up/in any/dti possible/jj misconception/nn in/in your/pp$ minds/nns ,/, wherever/wrb you/ppss are/ber ./.The/at collective/nn by/in which/wdt I/ppss address/vb you/ppo in/in the/at title/nn above/rb is/bez neither/cc patronizing/vbg nor/cc jocose/jj but/cc an/at exact/jj industrial/jj term/nn in/in use/nn among/in professional/jj thieves/nns ./.
Inaugural corpusA Plaintext corpus:
My fellow citizens:
I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors. I thank President Bush for his service to our nation, as well as the generosity and cooperation he has shown throughout this transition.
Forty-four Americans have now taken the presidential oath. ...............
But we still have lots of HTML...
BeautifulSoup to the rescue
>>> from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup as BS>>> data = open(filename,'r').read()>>> soup = BS(data)>>> print '\n'.join(soup.findAll(text=True))
notice the blockquote!
>>> bqs = s.findAll('blockquote')>>> [bq.extract() for bq in bqs]>>> print '\n'.join(s.findAll(text=True))
On 05/08/2007, at 12:05 PM, [...] wrote:If u want it USB bootable, just burn the DSL boot disk to CD and fire it up.  Then from the desktop after boot, right click and create the bootable USB key yourself.  I havent actually done this myself (only seen the option from the menu), but I am assuming it will be a fairly painless process if you are happy with the stock image.  Would be interested in how you go as I have to build 50 USB bootable DSL's in the next couple weeks.Regards,[...]
What about blockquotes?
Step 3:
analyse the data
Getting it into NLTK
import nltkpath = 'path/to/files'corpus = nltk.corpus.PlaintextCorpusReader(path, '.*\.html')
What about our metadata?
Create a Python dictionary that maps filenames to categoriese.g.categories={}categories['2008-12/msg00226.html'] =
['year-2008', 'month-12', 'author-BM<bm@xxxxx>']
....etc
then...import nltkpath = 'path/to/files/'corpus = nltk.corpus.CategorizedPlaintextCorpusReader(path, '.*\.html', cat_map=categories)
Simple categories
cats = corpus.categories()authorcats=[c for c in cats if c.startswith('author')]#>>> len(authorcats)#608yearcats=[c for c in cats if c.startswith('year')]monthcats=[c for c in cats if c.startswith('month')]
...who are the top posters?posts = [(len(corpus.fileids(author)), author) for author in authorcats]posts.sort(reverse=True)
for count, author in posts[:10]:print "%5d\t%s" % (count, author)
→ 1304 author-JW 1294 author-RC 1243 author-CS 1030 author-JH 868 author-DP 752 author-TWB 608 author-CS#2 556 author-TL 452 author-BM 412 author-RM(email me if you're curious to know if you're on it...)
Frequency distributions
popular =['ubuntu','debian','fedora','arch']niche = ['gentoo','suse','centos','redhat']
def getcfd(distros,limit):cfd = nltk.ConditionalFreqDist(
(distro, fileid[:limit])for fileid in corpus.fileids()for w in corpus.words(fileid)for distro in distrosif w.lower().startswith(distro))
return cfd
popularcfd = getcfd(popular,4) # or 7 for monthspopularcfd.plot()nichecfd = getcfd(niche,4)nichecfd.plot()
another “NLTKism”
'Popular' distros by month
'Popular' distros by year
'Niche' distros by year
Random text generation
import randomwords = [w.lower() for w in corpus.words()]bigrams = nltk.bigrams(words)cfd = nltk.ConditionalFreqDist(bigrams)
def generate_model(cfdist, word, num=15): for i in range(num): print word,
words = list(cfdist[word])word = random.choice(words)
text = [w.lower() for w in corpus.words()]bigrams = nltk.bigrams(text)cfd = nltk.ConditionalFreqDist(bigrams)generate_model(cfd, 'hi', num=20)
hi...hi allan : ages since apparently yum erased . attempts now venturing into config run ip 10 431 ms 57
hi serg it illegal address entries must *, t close relative info many families continue fi into modem and reinstalled
hi wen and amended :) imageshack does for grade service please blame . warning issued an overall environment consists in
hi folks i accidentally due cause excitingly stupid idiots , deletion flag on adding option ? branded ) mounting them
hi guys do composite required </ emulator in for unattended has info to catalyse a dbus will see atz init3
hi from Peter...text = [w.lower() for w in corpus.words(categories=
[c for c in authorcats if 'PeterL' in c])]
hi everyone , hence the database schema and that run on memberdb on mail store is 12 . yep ,
hi anita , your favourite piece of cpu cycles , he was thinking i hear the middle of failure .
hi anita , same vhost b internal ip / nine seem odd occasion i hazard . 25ghz g4 ibook here
hi everyone , same ) on removes a "-- nicelevel nn " as intended . 00 . main host basis
hi cameron , no biggie . candidates in to upgrade . ubuntu dom0 install if there ! now ). txt
hi cameron , attribution for 30 seconds , and runs out on linux to on www . luv , these
interesting collocations...or not
ext = [w.lower() for w in corpus.words() if w.isalpha()]from nltk.collocations import *bigram_measures = nltk.collocations.BigramAssocMeasures()finder = BigramCollocationFinder.from_words(text)
finder.apply_freq_filter(3)
finder.nbest(bigram_measures.pmi, 10) → bufnewfile bufreadbusmaster speccyclecellx cellycheswick bellovincread clocalcurtail atldmcrs rscemdmmrbc dmostdmost dmcrs...
oblig tag cloud
stopwords = nltk.corpus.stopwords.words('english')words = [w.lower() for w in corpus.words()
if w.isalpha()]words = [w for w in words if w not in stopwords]word_fd = nltk.FreqDist(words)wordmax = word_fd[word_fd.max()]wordmin = 1000 #YMMVtaglist = word_fd.items()ranges = getRanges(wordmin, wordmax)writeCloud(taglist, ranges, 'tags.html')
another one for Peter :)cats = [c for c in corpus.categories()
if 'PeterL' in c]words=[w.lower() for w in corpus.words(categories=cats)
if w.isalpha()]wordmin = 10
→
thanks!
for more corpus fun:http://www.nltk.org/
The Book:'Natural Language Processing
with Python', 2nd ed. pub. Jan 2010
These slides are © Brianna Laugher and are released under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike license,
v3.0 unported. The data set is not free, sadly...
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