People new to text mining are often disillusioned when they figure out how it’s actually done

People new to text mining are often disillusioned when they figure out how it’s actually done — which is still, in large part, by counting words. They’re willing to believe that computers have developed some clever strategy for finding patterns in language — but think “surely it’s something better than that?“

via Wordcounts are amazing. | The Stone and the Shell.

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