Graphing how the 10k* most common English words define each other
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Re: Graphing how the 10k* most common English words define each other
#2Very neat. What software is being used to construct/display the graph?
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#3Very neat. What software is being used to construct/display the graph?
Glad you like it. NetworkX for creating the graph and the layout; then SigmaJS for displaying it.
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#5Beautiful! Thank you!
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#6It's an interesting visualization for sure, but I don't really know what I can take away from it. Is it useful for something?
Re: Graphing how the 10k* most common English words define each other
#7It's an interesting visualization for sure, but I don't really know what I can take away from it. Is it useful for something?
You can look at this as how small sets of a primitive lexicon give rise to a larger, more complex language. At least that's how I interpret it.
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#8Is, be, and the don't show up in search box.
What am I missing?
Re: Graphing how the 10k* most common English words define each other
#9If you like this, you would probably enjoy Princeton Wordnet. They have unfortunately stopped developing it.
You can still browse it a bit online with some 3rd party sites: https://en-word.net/
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#10Is, be, and the don't show up in search box. What am I missing?
Other words too, e.g. "from".
My first thought was that the creator used a search library that filters common words by default, but the search code is all in the page and doesn't do that.
My second thought was that the 10k word corpus doesn't include those most common words. But it does.
Then I realized that the creator filtered them out. The page does say "7931 words", and the title here on HN says "10k* most common". The original corpus has exactly 10,000 words.
https://github.com/first20hours/google-10000-english/blob/d0...
The first 21 include all four we've mentioned:
the, of, and, to, a, in, for, is, on, that, by, this, with, i, you, it, not, or, be, are, from