[Mead] Re: Italian characters stripped

radev at umich.edu radev at umich.edu
Fri Oct 17 09:58:30 EDT 2003


> The second question is how to make a language db file for Italian. In =
> chapter 11.3 of the manual there's a mention to a script used to do that =
> work but that has been stripped from v3.07. Can you give me some =
> directions as to how to compute IDF? Is there any way to do that through =
> the analysis of a large set of documents?

There is a script build-idf.pl or something like this that takes as
input a text file (e.g., enidf.txt) to build an IDF file.

To build the IDF file, yopu may have to write your own little
program. I hadn't thought of including one with MEAD. (Feel free to
contribute it back to MEAD if you want :)

Drago

> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Valerio


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