How works the generation of Single/Bigrams/Trigrams/Quadgrams

[Rlvx]

Hello,

I am trying to use your code on a french ciphertext, so i need to change the values in "/resources/data" to make it work. Unfortunately, i don't understand how did you generate the score for Single/Bi-grams/Tri-grams and quad-grams. I suppose you use an English sample text to generate those value, and if so, it would be great if i could have the source code for this particular part.

Thanks by advance !

[mikepound]

Hi! The data I used for this was apparently a count of the bigrams, trigrams etc. from the google books archive. Now I look though, I can't remember where I got it from! I think original it came from the google ngram viewer, getting data out of this is possible, but not trivial. Note thaty some of these website use n-grams to mean words, some characters.

E.g. here:
https://stressosaurus.github.io/raw-data-google-ngram/

I downloaded some CSV files with raw likelihoods of n-grams from 1-gram to 7-gram I think. I then took only the 1-4 sets, and converted these into negative log likelihood probabilities to make compulation easier. For each probability I calculated log10(p).

This resource also might help:

https://github.com/orgtre/frenchngrams

This is word n-grams, but you could extract character values from 6grams pretty well I'd have thought. The number of words here is so high that the frequencies wouldn't change too much, I'd guess.