Re: word lists

At 6:00 PM +0200 6/20/05, Cilliè wrote:

out of interest what are you trying/going to do with such a list?

playing with categorizing stuff based on word frequency and relevance to other stuff with similar word frequency. "the" will give a lot of false positives :)

You might want to look at full text indexing or text analysis/data mining software, eg: http://www.textanalysis.info/ You could also check the stop-word lists from MySQL's fulltext indexing, or from search engines like htdig... http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/fulltext-search.html http://www.htdig.org/ Googling for the phrase "stop word list" also may be useful steve -- +--------------- my people are the people of the dessert, ---------------+ | Steve Edberg http://pgfsun.ucdavis.edu/ | | UC Davis Genome Center sbedberg@ucdavis.edu | | Bioinformatics programming/database/sysadmin (530)754-9127 | +---------------- said t e lawrence, picking up his fork ----------------+