Re: change numbers in a corpus into words

Off the top of my head:

perl -MLingua::EN::Numbers -pe 's/(\d\S+)/Lingua::EN::Numbers::num2en(
+$1) || $1/ge' < input_file > output_file
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This will attempt to change anything that starts with a digit. You might want a more specific pattern. Also, it uses Lingua::EN::Numbers instead of the one you listed (Lingua::Numbers2words, which I didn't find). I haven't tested this.

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Re^2: change numbers in a corpus into words by Anonymous Monk on Feb 05, 2008 at 22:44 UTC
tx friend, it dosnt change all numbers t words, what i get is some numbers to words and sum not.... any idea? for example for 3 : 30 it returns 3 : thirty.	[reply]
Re^3: change numbers in a corpus into words by kyle (Abbot) on Feb 05, 2008 at 22:48 UTC
Oh, that's my pattern doing that (it requires a non-space character after the digit). Try this instead (single digits match): `perl -MLingua::EN::Numbers -pe 's/(\d\S*)/Lingua::EN::Numbers::num2en( +$1) \|\| $1/ge' < input_file > output_file` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: change numbers in a corpus into words by Anonymous Monk on Feb 05, 2008 at 23:08 UTC
thanks man, it works just got some minor changes that i think i would be able to fix. for example it dosnt change the digits stick to characters such as (1882) or 12s or 22nd which i guess ill change the Regexp n will fix... again tx alot.	[reply]