Re: [infomap-nlp-users] Three questions; was: spare matrix format

[Beate D. <do...@IM...>]

Hi Mich,

> - Using the -n tag, one can extend the number of neighbours of
> associate's output to 200. Is this a hard limit or could this
> be altered to the theoretical maximum that is near the vocabulary size?

There is no limit to the number of neighbors. You'll simply have to change 
MAX_NEIGHBOR and PRINT_NEIGHBOR in associate.h to a bigger number and use 
associate -n <big_number>.

> Another, unrelated question that should be easily answered then.
> If I recall correctly, some words in infomap are not taken into account,
> for example, the word 'the' does not hold semantic content and is 
> therefore not taken into consideration in computing correspondences. Am 
> I right there? Since I am trying to get this program to work using Dutch 
> documents, I was wondering which info-map file holds the words that are 
> ignored in the computation, so it would be more easy to adapt it to the 
> current languange.

It's "stop.list" in the admin directory which contains the words to be 
disregarded. If you want to use a different set of stopwords, you can 
simply set STOPLIST_FILE in "default-params.in" to point to a different 
stoplist, the format of which should be such that each line contains 
exactly one stopword.

Best wishes,
Beate