Changes from NSP version 0.55 to 0.57
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Amruta Purandare, pura0010@umn.edu
Ted Pedersen, tpederse@umn.edu
University of Minnesota, Duluth
July 3, 2003
Utils
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(1) Total rewrite of Utils/kocos.pl to make it more efficient
and reliable. kocos allows a user to find Kth order
co-occurrences of a given target word or target regexes.
The process of identifying "cycles" in the co-occurrence
chains has been significantly improved, and problems that
existed in handling special characters such as . and ,
have been resolved. In addition kocos now only displays
the Kth order co-occurrences. Previously it displayed the
1st through Kth order co-occurrences. ADP.05
(2) Because of (1) program socs.pl has been removed from NSP.
It was provided in .55 as a fast alternative to kocos for
2nd order co-occurrences only. Since kocos is now much
faster it is no longer needed and is superseded.
(3) Added Utils/combig.pl. This program converts output from count.pl
such that bigrams are treated as unordered word pairs. count views
a bigram "W1 W2" as W1 preceding W2, while combig.pl views bigram
"W1 W2" as W1 and W2 occurring together in either order.
(4) Added script/drivers for combig.pl (combig-script.sh).
(5) Changed version number of rank.pl from 0.5 to 0.01 to make
it consistent with current numbering scheme. rank.pl has
not been modified since the very early days of BSP.
count.pl
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(1) display value of --remove in --extended output TDP.57.1
(2) make sure source and destination file exist TDP.57.2
(3) minor rewording of warning/error messages
statistic.pl
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(1) make sure source and destination file exist TDP.57.3
(2) minor re-wording of warning/error messages
Testing
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(1) Added test cases for new Util combig.
(2) Added new tests cases for kocos.pl.
(3) Modified test case for count.pl --extended for TDP.57.1
(4) Modified test cases for count.pl and statistic.pl due to
rewording of warning and error messages.
[Ted - 07/03/2003]