Comments on: XML and the Natural Language Toolkit http://www.openshakespeare.org/2010/02/26/xml-and-the-natural-language-toolkit/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:45:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: adalovelace http://www.openshakespeare.org/2010/02/26/xml-and-the-natural-language-toolkit/comment-page-1/#comment-8215 adalovelace Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:00:02 +0000 http://blog.openshakespeare.org/?p=76#comment-8215 <p>Ingrid: the answer is very simple: I just counted the '!'s and '?'s per character, and MacDuff may not talk much, but when he does is with exclamation signs... where Macbeth is less prone to use them. I haven't parsed the ratio of them per word... that is a good idea for next graphs! The nltk scripts I've used are in the contrib folder on the project sourcecode: http://knowledgeforge.net/shakespeare/hg/log?rev=nltk</p> <p>Thanks for the idea Ingrid, I will see which other numbers I can infer...</p> Ingrid: the answer is very simple:
I just counted the ‘!’s and ‘?’s per character, and MacDuff may not talk much, but when he does is with exclamation signs… where Macbeth is less prone to use them.
I haven’t parsed the ratio of them per word… that is a good idea for next graphs!
The nltk scripts I’ve used are in the contrib folder on the project sourcecode: http://knowledgeforge.net/shakespeare/hg/log?rev=nltk

Thanks for the idea Ingrid, I will see which other numbers I can infer…

]]> By: Ingrid http://www.openshakespeare.org/2010/02/26/xml-and-the-natural-language-toolkit/comment-page-1/#comment-8207 Ingrid Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:10:11 +0000 http://blog.openshakespeare.org/?p=76#comment-8207 <p>Hi there,</p> <p>Thanks for the graphs - they are very interesting!</p> <p>I'm curious, in the first graph on exclamations and interrogations, MacBeth has shorter bars than, say MacDuff despite having more lines, so I'm guessing you normalised in some way. </p> <p>Did you look at the ratio of the number of '!'/'?' characters in a character's speech to the number of words, lines or complete sentences spoken by the character - or did you do something else entirely? </p> <p>Many thanks again!</p> Hi there,

Thanks for the graphs – they are very interesting!

I’m curious, in the first graph on exclamations and interrogations, MacBeth has shorter bars than, say MacDuff despite having more lines, so I’m guessing you normalised in some way.

Did you look at the ratio of the number of ‘!’/'?’ characters in a character’s speech to the number of words, lines or complete sentences spoken by the character – or did you do something else entirely?

Many thanks again!

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