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Re: Catogorising strings into random versus non-random

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Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> writes:
> Does anyone have any suggestions for how to do this? Preferably something
> already existing. I have some thoughts and/or questions:

I think I'd just look at the set of digraphs or trigraphs in each name
and see if there are a lot that aren't found in English.

> - I think nltk has a "language detection" function, would that be suitable?
> - If not nltk, are there are suitable language detection libraries?

I suspect these need longer strings to work.

> - Is this the sort of problem that neural networks are good at solving?
> Anyone know a really good tutorial for neural networks in Python?
> - How about Bayesian filters, e.g. SpamBayes?

You want large training sets for these approaches.

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Catogorising strings into random versus non-random Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-12-21 14:01 +1100
  Categorising strings on meaningful–meaningless spectrum (was: Catogorising strings into random versus non-random) Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-12-21 14:45 +1100
    Re: Categorising strings on meaningful–meaningless spectrum (was: Catogorising strings into random versus non-random) Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-12-21 19:47 +1100
  Re: Catogorising strings into random versus non-random Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-12-21 15:22 +1100
    Re: Catogorising strings into random versus non-random Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-12-21 19:57 +1100
    Re: Catogorising strings into random versus non-random Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2015-12-21 17:45 -0800
  Re: Catogorising strings into random versus non-random Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2015-12-21 09:24 +0100
    Re: Catogorising strings into random versus non-random Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2015-12-21 10:56 +0100
      Re: Catogorising strings into random versus non-random Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-12-21 21:36 +1100
        Re: Catogorising strings into random versus non-random Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2015-12-21 11:53 +0100
          Re: Catogorising strings into random versus non-random Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2015-12-21 11:56 +0100
  Re: Catogorising strings into random versus non-random Vlastimil Brom <vlastimil.brom@gmail.com> - 2015-12-21 14:25 +0100
  Re: Catogorising strings into random versus non-random Vincent Davis <vincent@vincentdavis.net> - 2015-12-21 07:51 -0600
  Re: Catogorising strings into random versus non-random duncan smith <duncan@invalid.invalid> - 2015-12-21 16:40 +0000
    Re: Catogorising strings into random versus non-random Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-12-21 09:49 -0700
      Re: Catogorising strings into random versus non-random duncan smith <duncan@invalid.invalid> - 2015-12-21 17:41 +0000
    Re: Catogorising strings into random versus non-random Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-12-21 17:09 +0000
  Re: Catogorising strings into random versus non-random Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-12-21 09:20 -0800

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