Month: April 2021

We’ve gotten pretty good at finding words that an author uses unusually often. But what about the opposite? What about words that the author uses less than we expect, or even not at all? After all, Cuchulain, the Hound of…

The unique sentence results for Cuchulain wound up being an interesting lesson in the importance of proper pre-processing when doing natural language processing. While the relative frequency results are interesting enough the global frequency results were basically useless. See for…

Time to dig deeper into the writing style of Eleanor Henrietta Hull in her book Cuchulain, the Hound of Ulster. The first and most unusual note is that there were zero words that fit the criteria of my “common in…

Ireland has a rich set of myths and legends that I know almost nothing about other than the fact that there was a hero named Cú Chulainn that keeps showing up in Japanese RPGs*. Fortunately back in the early 1900s…