topic Re: Counting Dictionary words in email address in SAS Data Science

Counting Dictionary words in email address

nakulkothari — Fri, 22 Apr 2016 11:16:06 GMT

I have a huge list of email addresses. I want to determine number of dictionary words in each email address. Programming language I am using is SAS.

Ex - suppose the email addresses are as below. The output I require is - coolgirl@email.com --> 2 dictionary words - cool and girl angeldream@gmail.como --> 2 dictionary words - angel and dream

Can anyone suggest how to go about it.

Re: Counting Dictionary words in email address

RW9 — Fri, 22 Apr 2016 12:06:03 GMT

Whilst its easy enouhg to get a list of words off the net, my first search came up with this:

https://github.com/dwyl/english-words

The question is how are you going to lexicographically parse a text string to find words? There are many combinations, different meanings, different spellings etc. Just take your example: coolgirl, what if it was coolaid? Two separate words, or the company name? What about halfpipe, should it be half and pipe, or halfpipe?

I think your best bet would be to investigate text analytics if you really need to do this, although its another license:

http://www.sas.com/en_us/software/analytics/text-miner.html

Re: Counting Dictionary words in email address

PGStats — Sat, 23 Apr 2016 19:53:18 GMT

Some word lists are available at https://sourceforge.net/projects/wordlist/files/latest/download?source=typ_redirect.

Is this for targeted marketing?

Re: Counting Dictionary words in email address

nakulkothari — Thu, 28 Apr 2016 07:19:38 GMT

No, this is not for targeted marketing.

I am doing a project in which I need to determine number of dictionary words in the email handle.

I am stuck in the question. And don't know how to proceed

Re: Counting Dictionary words in email address

nakulkothari — Thu, 28 Apr 2016 09:41:43 GMT

No, this is not for targeted marketing.

I am doing a project in which I need to determine number of dictionary words in the email handle.

I am stuck in the question. And don't know how to proceed