http://www.investigations.4-lom.com/2008/04/08/identifying-places/ Failing better at understanding the past Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:50:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.investigations.4-lom.com/2008/04/08/identifying-places/comment-page-1/#comment-13903 Gavin Robinson Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:50:04 +0000 http://www.investigations.4-lom.com/2008/04/08/identifying-places/#comment-13903 I'll have another post on this when I've tested it some more. My first impression of comparing with the whole country instead of one county is that it gets too many results, but I think I need to vary the threshold from case to case instead of one-size-fits-all. In practice the amount of help I need to identify places varies a lot. Some are so obvious and unique that I can spot them without any help, others are completely undecidable as there are 2 or 3 equally plausible possibilities, and there's a lot of variation in between. I’ll have another post on this when I’ve tested it some more. My first impression of comparing with the whole country instead of one county is that it gets too many results, but I think I need to vary the threshold from case to case instead of one-size-fits-all. In practice the amount of help I need to identify places varies a lot. Some are so obvious and unique that I can spot them without any help, others are completely undecidable as there are 2 or 3 equally plausible possibilities, and there’s a lot of variation in between.

]]> http://www.investigations.4-lom.com/2008/04/08/identifying-places/comment-page-1/#comment-13901 William J Turkel Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:06:32 +0000 http://www.investigations.4-lom.com/2008/04/08/identifying-places/#comment-13901 This is really interesting, Gavin. I looked into the details of <a href="http://pydoc.org/2.1/difflib.html" rel="nofollow">difflib</a>, expecting to find some standard string distance measure like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance" rel="nofollow">Levenshtein</a>, but it is funkier than that. I will have to explore this further. Best, Bill. This is really interesting, Gavin. I looked into the details of difflib, expecting to find some standard string distance measure like Levenshtein, but it is funkier than that. I will have to explore this further. Best, Bill.

]]> http://www.investigations.4-lom.com/2008/04/08/identifying-places/comment-page-1/#comment-13899 Pamphlets and programming « Mercurius Politicus Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:43:14 +0000 http://www.investigations.4-lom.com/2008/04/08/identifying-places/#comment-13899 [...] April 2008 by mercuriuspoliticus Gavin Robinson put up an interesting post today about using XML and Python to organise and double-check lists of [...] [...] April 2008 by mercuriuspoliticus Gavin Robinson put up an interesting post today about using XML and Python to organise and double-check lists of [...]

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