Tag: NLP

Colemak: 0 to 40 WPM in 40 Hours

On April 1st my first child was born and I started a wonderful month of paternity leave. Holding a sleeping infant leaves you with lots of sleepy hours where its (sometimes) possible to do repetitive tasks, so I decided to follow the 10% of my Automattic colleagues that are using either Dvorak or Colemak. My…

May 18, 2015
Three Principles for Multilingal Indexing in Elasticsearch

Recently I’ve been working on how to build Elasticsearch indices for WordPress blogs in a way that will work across multiple languages. Elasticsearch has a lot of built in support for different languages, but there are a number of configuration options to wade through and there are a few plugins that improve on the built…

May 1, 2013
UNIX, Bi-Grams, Tri-Grams, and Topic Modeling

I’ve built up a list of UNIX commands over the years for doing basic text analysis on written language. I’ve built this list from a number of sources (Jim Martin‘s NLP class, StackOverflow, web searches), but haven’t seen it much in one place. With these commands I can analyze everything from log files to user…

January 26, 2013