Re: [xml-dev] Re: English sentences, was: Re: [xml-dev] Announce: XML Schema,

Rick Jelliffe scripsit:

> See  http://www.alis.com/castil/silc/?AlisTargetHost=http://www.alis.com:8080
> for the commercialization.

For which they want US$15K per box.....

> I have just been looking for public domain tables giving the liklihood of
> various trigrams  [...]
> Lots of papers reference them, but it looks like a definitive collection
> has not come yet.  (One good approach to doing this would be to take the
> spelling tables from aspell and generate them.)

Actually I think not: for this purpose you want frequencies in running
text, not in spelling lists, which obviously have far too many rare
words in them.

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John Cowan                                
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