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Python 3 Text Processing with NLTK 3 Cookbook - Second Edition
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Python 3 Text Processing with NLTK 3 Cookbook - Second Edition

by Jacob Perkins
August 2014
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
304 pages
7h 10m
English
Packt Publishing
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Distributed word scoring with Redis and execnet

We can use Redis and execnet together to do distributed word scoring. In the Calculating high information words recipe in Chapter 7, Text Classification, we calculated the information gain of each word in the movie_reviews corpus using a FreqDist and ConditionalFreqDist. Now that we have Redis, we can do the same thing using a RedisHashFreqDist and a RedisConditionalHashFreqDist, and then store the scores in a RedisOrderedDict. We can use execnet to distribute the counting in order to get a better performance out of Redis.

Getting ready

Redis, redis-py, and execnet must be installed, and an instance of redis-server must be running on localhost.

How to do it...

We start by getting a list of (label, words) ...

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