James Tauber

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Statistically Improbable Words in Python

I've noticed recently that Amazon has started listing some significantly improbably phrases for many of their books.

About a year ago, my sister Jenni and I wrote a Python script to do something similar (although only at the word level, not phrase).

Inspired by Amazon, I've now put our script up at http://jtauber.com/2005/03/z_value.py

I'll need to think a little more how to extend it to phrases. In the meantime, have fun with the script and let me know if you have any suggestions.

Created: March 14, 2005
Last Modified: March 14, 2005
Author: jtauber