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

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"There is no limit to the number of neighbors. You'll simply have to change=
=20
MAX_NEIGHBOR and PRINT_NEIGHBOR in associate.h to a bigger number and use=
=20
associate -n <big_number>."

Got it, thanks !

> Another, unrelated question that should be easily answered then. If I=20
> recall correctly, some words in infomap are not taken into account,=20
> for example, the word 'the' does not hold semantic content and is=20
> therefore not taken into consideration in computing correspondences.=20
> Am I right there? Since I am trying to get this program to work using=20
> Dutch documents, I was wondering which info-map file holds the words=20
> that are ignored in the computation, so it would be more easy to adapt=20
> it to the current languange.

"It's "stop.list" in the admin directory which contains the words to be=20
disregarded. If you want to use a different set of stopwords, you can=20
simply set STOPLIST_FILE in "default-params.in" to point to a different=20
stoplist, the format of which should be such that each line contains=20
exactly one stopword."

I see. Taking a look at the stop.list right now, I must say it looks rather=
 extensive. Could you or anyone else tell me what exactly the reasons are s=
ome words are in this stoplist and others not? Several words, such as 'arti=
cles', 'americans', 'training', etc, would seem to hold semantic content bu=
t appear here nevertheless. Is there any literature why these words are in =
the list, or could the underlying reasoning be explained?

Thanks,

Mich (strolling the internet right now looking for Dutch books - the Guthen=
berg project, although having an archive of quite a few of these, seems to =
be quite outdated in terms of spelling changes that arose over the last two=
 centuries).


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