Answer by Marco for How to strip headers/footers from Project Gutenberg texts?
I am also trying to figure out a way to clean a Gutenberg Project text files for text analysis purpouses, but I use julia and I am probably just trying to reinvent the wheel. So I wonder if it is...
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The gutenbergr package in R seems to do an ok job of removing headers, including junk after the 'official' end of the header.First you'll need to install R/Rstudio,...
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I've also wanted a tool to strip Project Gutenberg headers and footers for years for playing with natural language processing without contaminating the analysis with boilerplate mixed in with the etxt....
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You weren't kidding. It's almost as if they were trying to make the job AI-complete. I can think of only two approaches, neither of them perfect.1) Set up a script in, say, Perl, to tackle the most...
View ArticleHow to strip headers/footers from Project Gutenberg texts?
I've tried various methods to strip the license from Project Gutenberg texts, for use as a corpus for a language learning project, but I can't seem to come up with an unsupervised, reliable approach....
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