[Edu-sig] text compression as a learning tool

[Jason Cunliffe]

Not what you are asking for and it's not crypto..

There is a cool Python API for WordNet - fascinatating in its own right and
could open up a different kind of crypto based on larger granularity of text
chunks, meanings and associations. It might be challenging and enlightening
to deal programatically with the English language while learning to
speak and think in the Python language.

http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~steele/sources/wordnet-python.html

<quote>
The wordnet.py module is a Python interface to the Wordnet 1.6 database.
WordNet is a database of word meanings and lexical relationships, such as
synonym, antonym, hypernym ("poodle"->"dog"), and hyponym ("poodle"->"dog").
wordnet.py presents a concise interface to WordNet, that allows the user to
type expressions such as N['dog'], hyponyms(N['dog'][0]), and
closure(ADJ['red'], SYNONYM) to query the database.
</quote>

./Jason


----- Original Message -----
From: "Timothy Wilson" <wilson@visi.com>
To: "Python-Edu SIG" <edu-sig@python.org>
Sent: Monday, May 28, 2001 5:40 PM
Subject: [Edu-sig] text compression as a learning tool


> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm trying to come up with some more comprehensive projects to supplement
my
> Python class for next fall. I'm definitely going to do a little "clubhouse
> crypto" (thanks Kirby and Neal Stephenson for picquing my interest).
>
> Before undertaking my own study of text/data compression, I'd like to get
> the opinions of the list members here about whether you think this could
be
> an appropriate subject for beginning to intermediate Python programmers.
>
> Any particular references to compression algorithms or other background
> materials?
>
> Other thoughts?
>
> -Tim
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