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google n-gram data (googleresearch.blogspot.com)
4 points by bootload on April 17, 2007 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



I added this because it's n-gram [0] data is useful for spell checking (among other things) as highlighted in the post on writing a word processor in 20 lines of python. [1]

Reference

[0] wikipedia, 'n-gram: sub-sequence of n items from a given sequence'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-gram

[1] chandrab, news.yc, 'From Google (Norvig): How to write a spelling check in 20 lines (very cool) '

http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=10967




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