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ngrams(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation ngrams(3pm)

NAME

ngrams - Compute the ngram frequencies and produce tables to the stdout.

SYNOPIS

  ngram [--version] [--help] [--n=3] [--normalize] [--type=TYPE]
        [--orderby=ORD] [--onlyfirst=N] [input files]

DESCRIPTION

This script produces n-grams tables of the input files to the standard output.

Options:

Prints normalized n-gram frequencies; i.e., the n-gram counts divided by the total number of n-grams of the same size.
Prints only the first NUMBER n-grams for each n. See Text::Ngrams module.
Limit the total number of distinct n-grams (for efficiency reasons, the counts may not be correct at the end).
Prints version.
Prints help.
N-gram size, produces 3-grams by default.
The n-gram order. See Text::Ngrams module.
Type of n-grams produces. See Text::Ngrams module.

PREREQUISITES

Text::Ngrams, Getopt::Long

SCRIPT CATEGORIES

Text::Statistics

README

N-gram analysis for various kinds of n-grams (character, words, bytes, utf8, and user-defined). Based on Text::Ngrams module.

SEE ALSO

Text::Ngrams module.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2003-2017 Vlado Keselj http://web.cs.dal.ca/~vlado

This module is provided "as is" without expressed or implied warranty. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

The latest version can be found at http://web.cs.dal.ca/~vlado/srcperl/.

2022-06-28 perl v5.34.0