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Implementation of the Brown hierarchical word clustering algorithm.
Percy Liang
Release 1.3
2012.07.24

Input: a sequence of words separated by whitespace (see input.txt for an example).
Output: for each word type, its cluster (see output.txt for an example).
        In particular, each line is:
  <cluster represented as a bit string> <word> <number of times word occurs in input>

Runs in $O(N C^2)$, where $N$ is the number of word types and $C$
is the number of clusters.

References:

  Brown, et al.: Class-Based n-gram Models of Natural Language
    http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/J/J92/J92-4003.pdf

  Liang: Semi-supervised learning for natural language processing
    http://cs.stanford.edu/~pliang/papers/meng-thesis.pdf

Compile:

  make

Run:

  # Clusters input.txt into 50 clusters:
  ./wcluster --text input.txt --c 50
  # Output in input-c50-p1.out/paths

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Change Log

1.3: compatibility updates for newer versions of g++ (courtesy of Chris Dyer).
1.2: make compatible with MacOS (replaced timespec with timeval and changed order of linking).
1.1: Removed deprecated operators so it works with GCC 4.3.

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