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added weasel words from recent SIGMOD talk on writing papers http://t…
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devd committed May 21, 2012
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Expand Up @@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ sub fixPassive{

sub fixWeasel{
#TODO add better support for wordfile
my $regex ='\b(almost|many|various|very|fairly|several|extremely|exceedingly|quite|remarkably|few|surprisingly|mostly|largely|huge|tiny|((are|is) a number)|excellent|interestingly|significantly|substantially|clearly|vast|relatively|completely)\b';
my $regex ='\b(might|appears\s+to\s+be|it\s+is\s+easy\s+to\s+see|theoretically|actual|In\s+this\s+paper|almost|many|various|very|fairly|several|extremely|exceedingly|quite|remarkably|few|surprisingly|mostly|largely|huge|tiny|((are|is) a number)|excellent|interestingly|significantly|substantially|clearly|vast|relatively|completely)\b';
return $str =~ s/$regex/\x{EFFF}$weasel_color$1$def_color\x{EFFF}/goi;
}

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