I have a feeling the model answers used for the auto-marking was computed using a different set of texts then the set used to test our scripts. I say this because when I test my script on the Alice in Wonderland.txt file from week 4 (note the undersco...

Hi Michael, Given that 'Roo is counted as a word even though it does not satisfy the definition of a simple word (sequence of one or more alphabetic characters), and pain'-killin is counted as a word, contraction and compound word even though it satis...

Hi Michael, I think you may have missed some questions in certain threads, namely 1. https secure.csse.uwa.edu.au run help4407?p np opt U105 2. https secure.csse.uwa.edu.au run help4407?p np opt U93 3. https secure.csse.uwa.edu.au run help4407?p n...

Hi Michael, Sorry to harp on this issue, but I am still confused on how to deal with the different variants of a country's name. I took your earlier reply "Seeing that is the format that the data as downloaded uses, that is the format I'll be using for...

Hi Michael, With regards to task 2, suppose the integer supplied (e.g. common words -nth 10000000000000 textfiles) is larger than the number of unique words found in a text, do you want us to 1. Use the word with the lowest frequency 2. Make the progra...

Hi Michael, with regards to the last point, I don't see a way to remove "(Plurinational State of)" but not remove "(until 2011)" in a generalised way using a single pipeline, as these phrases are both denoted by parentheses and consist of alphanumeri...

Must we write anti-bugging code to ensure that the directory provided only includes text files?

That's surprising, because I did not nest any for loops, I simply iterate over each row of the csv file once and i'm taking 20-30 seconds. Is a file size of 2033 lines considered "colossal" or should I be concerned?

With regards to assignment 1, will we be penalised if our programs take too long to run? Currently, my malaria incidence takes 20 seconds to run (due to a for loop).