Re: PHP Extension -- feedback request

2010/1/15 Cesar D. Rodas <saddor@gmail.com>: > Hello Rasmus, > > > Thanks for the feedback :-) > > 2010/1/15 Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com>: >> Cesar D. Rodas wrote: >>> Hello everybody, >>> >>> In the fast few weeks I've been developing a brand new PHP Extension >>> and I'd like a feedback about it, in order to request a PECL account. >>> >>> The extension it's pretty simple, it implements a N-gram based text >>> categorization [1] class, useful to detect languages of texts with a >>> minimum supervision (it requires a simple learning from samples). >>> >>> Currently the Extension, provides two classes: >>> >>> - BaseTextCat: This class has few abstract methods, allowing >>> developers override the default behavior of the library from the PHP >>> userland. >>> - TextCat: A ready-to-use class with standard behavior (saving the >>> "knowledge" in flat files, treating texts as one character per byte). >>> >>> The Extension it's hosted currently at Github, >>> http://github.com/crodas/PHPTextCat >> >> Looks cool.  Fill out the svn account request form at >> http://us.php.net/svn-php.php and we will get you set up. > Thanks for the advice, I just did it. > >> >> I did notice a few issues.  Most of your sample text has character >> encoding issues.  And your Swedish sample text is actually Swahili. >> Easy mistake to make.  Those Swahili-speaking swedes are everywhere.. > The encoding issues are intentional, as I said I treat right now > one-byte per character (but it will change soon overriding the class > from PHP), I think it's useful as is, since it detect language and > encoding (i.e Spanish.UTF-8, Spanish.ISO-8859-1). And I wasn't aware > about my Swedish sample text (I speak Spanish, Portuguese and a few > English), but I'll get a sample text from Wikipedia. > >> >> -Rasmus >> > > > > -- > Cesar D. Rodas > http://cesar.la/ > Phone: +595-961-974165 > > -- > PECL development discussion Mailing List (http://pecl.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > There are a lot of the short texts at http://www.let.rug.nl/vannoord/TextCat/ShortTexts/ -- ----- Richard Quadling "Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!" EE : http://www.experts-exchange.com/M_248814.html Zend Certified Engineer : http://zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND002498&r=213474731 ZOPA : http://uk.zopa.com/member/RQuadling