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Title: google-ngram-downloader: Version 4.0.0

Type Software Dmitrijs Milajevs, neocortex, Ray Powell (2014): google-ngram-downloader: Version 4.0.0. Zenodo. Software. https://zenodo.org/record/11884

Authors: Dmitrijs Milajevs (Queen Mary University of London) ; neocortex ; Ray Powell (Univ of Chicago - BSD - LAC - OSDC) ;

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Summary

The Google Books Ngram Viewer dataset is a freely available resource under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License which provides ngram counts over books scanned by Google.

The data is so big, that storing it is almost impossible. However, sometimes you need an aggregate data over the dataset. For example to build a co-occurrence matrix.

This package provides an iterator over the dataset stored at Google. It decompresses the data on the fly and provides you the access to the underlying data. Features

Download ngrams of various length and languages. Access to part of ngrams, e.g. ones that start with an 'a'.

Installation

pip install google-ngram-downloader The command line tool

It also provides a simple command line tool to download the ngrams called google-ngram-downloader. Refer to the help to see available actions:

google-ngram-downloader help usage: google-ngram-downloader <command> [options] commands: cooccurrence Write the cooccurrence frequencies of a word and its contexts. download Download The Google Books Ngram Viewer dataset version 20120701. help Show help for a given help topic or a help overview. readline Print the raw content. Example use of the API >>> from google_ngram_downloader import readline_google_store >>> >>> fname, url, records = next(readline_google_store(ngram_len=5)) >>> fname 'googlebooks-eng-all-5gram-20120701-0.gz' >>> url 'http://storage.googleapis.com/books/ngrams/books/googlebooks-eng-all-5gram-20120701-0.gz' >>> next(records) Record(ngram=u'0 " A most useful', year=1860, match_count=1, volume_count=1) Changes Version 4.0.0 Added 'indices' keyword. Thanks to neocortex. Added 'language' flat. Thanks to Ray Powell (rpowellgit). Version 3.1.1 Non-unique contexts are taken into account inside of an ngram. Version 3.1 The cooccurrence command does not perform any ngram modification. Version 3.0 download, readile and cooccurrence subcommands. readline_google_store transforms lines to Record in several processes.

More information

  • DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11884

Dates

  • Publication date: 2014
  • Issued: September 26, 2014

Rights

  • info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Open Access

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Format

electronic resource

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