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On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 9:40 AM, duncan smith <duncan@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> Finite state machine / transition matrix. Learn from some English text
> source. Then process your strings by lower casing, replacing underscores
> with spaces, removing trailing numeric characters etc. Base your score
> on something like the mean transition probability. I'd expect to see two
> pretty well separated groups of scores.

Sounds like a case for a Hidden Markov Model.