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  "id": 9547,
  "title": "External Data Requests",
  "url": "/competitions/avito-prohibited-content/discussion/9547",
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  "post_date": "2014-06-24T21:22:44.223Z",
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  "content": "<p>Please post your requests for external data sources here. An Avito representative will respond in <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/avito-prohibited-content/forums/t/9548/external-data-approvals\">this thread</a>. Please see the Timeline for deadlines related to external data.</p>\n\n<p>EDIT:</p>\n<p>This thread is for requests for permission to use an external data source as part of your model building, not asking for external data to be provided.</p>",
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      "id": "49509",
      "postDate": "06/24/2014 21:22:44",
      "content": "<p>Please post your requests for external data sources here. An Avito representative will respond in <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/avito-prohibited-content/forums/t/9548/external-data-approvals\">this thread</a>. Please see the Timeline for deadlines related to external data.</p>\n\n<p>EDIT:</p>\n<p>This thread is for requests for permission to use an external data source as part of your model building, not asking for external data to be provided.</p>",
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      "id": "49644",
      "postDate": "06/26/2014 18:51:49",
      "content": "<p>Well,&nbsp;I suspect most of us here don't know Russian, so I suggest the competition admin&nbsp;(or at least someone who's a native Russian speaker) provide the following info:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.4\">A list of Russian stop words</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.4\">Russian language stemmer source code and&nbsp;related rules</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.4\">Lists of common Russian words and phrases with usage frequency</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.4\">Whatever&nbsp;non-Russian speakers should know about processing Russian text</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p>We can all do our own searches, but good sources are probably&nbsp;in Russian itself. It'd be great if someone can provide the&nbsp;authoritative info or sources.</p>",
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      "id": "49645",
      "postDate": "06/26/2014 19:34:10",
      "content": "<p>1) <em>[deleted] (see post #5)</em></p>\n<p>2)</p>\n<p>3) http://www.ruscorpora.ru/corpora-freq.html</p>\n<p>4)</p>",
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      "id": "49646",
      "postDate": "06/26/2014 19:55:35",
      "content": "<p>Hello,</p>\n<p>You can use python nltk package. Please find examples in&nbsp;avito_ProhibitedContent_SampleCode.py</p>\n<p>Two Russian morphological analyzers are pymorphy (https://pythonhosted.org/pymorphy/) and solarix (http://www.solarix.ru/) - can also be useful.</p>",
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      "id": "49659",
      "postDate": "06/27/2014 00:28:50",
      "content": "<p>Thanks Andrey. By stop words, I meant words like <em>a, the, and</em>, see&nbsp;<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_words\">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_words</a>&nbsp;,&nbsp;not a list of words avito currently uses to block ads, although that would be far more&nbsp;useful. :)</p>",
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      "id": "49666",
      "postDate": "06/27/2014 03:00:53",
      "content": "<p>I think the meaning of this thread&nbsp;has been misinterpreted, so just to be clear: I meant this is for requests for permission to use an external data source as part of your model building, not asking for external data to be provided.</p>",
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    {
      "id": "49689",
      "postDate": "06/27/2014 10:24:50",
      "content": "<p>[quote=B Yang;49644]</p>\n<p>Well,&nbsp;I suspect most of us here don't know Russian, so I suggest the competition admin&nbsp;(or at least someone who's a native Russian speaker) provide the following info:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.4\">A list of Russian stop words</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.4\">Russian language stemmer source code and&nbsp;related rules</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.4\">Lists of common Russian words and phrases with usage frequency</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.4\">Whatever&nbsp;non-Russian speakers should know about processing Russian text</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p>We can all do our own searches, but good sources are probably&nbsp;in Russian itself. It'd be great if someone can provide the&nbsp;authoritative info or sources.</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n\n<p>I suggest to use nltk python package for list of stop words.</p>\n<p>Try this&nbsp;</p>\n<p>set(nltk.corpus.stopwords.words('russian'))</p>",
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    {
      "id": "50438",
      "postDate": "07/13/2014 16:18:25",
      "content": "<p>Request to use a different list of stop words.&nbsp;https://sites.google.com/site/kevinbouge/stopwords-lists</p>",
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    {
      "id": "50461",
      "postDate": "07/14/2014 06:02:49",
      "content": "<p>Approved. Go ahead and use those lists.</p>",
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    {
      "id": "51188",
      "postDate": "07/26/2014 05:02:56",
      "content": "<p>Hello!</p>\n<p>Can I use the list russian of verbs as an external data?</p>",
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    {
      "id": "51265",
      "postDate": "07/28/2014 15:55:46",
      "content": "<p>vTatulin,</p>\n<p>Can you specify which list of verbs you mean, if you would like permission?</p>",
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      "id": 49644,
      "author_name": "byang1",
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      "post_date": "06/26/2014 18:51:49",
      "content": "<p>Well,&nbsp;I suspect most of us here don't know Russian, so I suggest the competition admin&nbsp;(or at least someone who's a native Russian speaker) provide the following info:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.4\">A list of Russian stop words</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.4\">Russian language stemmer source code and&nbsp;related rules</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.4\">Lists of common Russian words and phrases with usage frequency</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.4\">Whatever&nbsp;non-Russian speakers should know about processing Russian text</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p>We can all do our own searches, but good sources are probably&nbsp;in Russian itself. It'd be great if someone can provide the&nbsp;authoritative info or sources.</p>",
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    {
      "id": 49645,
      "author_name": "andybelf",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "06/26/2014 19:34:10",
      "content": "<p>1) <em>[deleted] (see post #5)</em></p>\n<p>2)</p>\n<p>3) http://www.ruscorpora.ru/corpora-freq.html</p>\n<p>4)</p>",
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      "id": 49646,
      "author_name": "vasilyleksin",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "06/26/2014 19:55:35",
      "content": "<p>Hello,</p>\n<p>You can use python nltk package. Please find examples in&nbsp;avito_ProhibitedContent_SampleCode.py</p>\n<p>Two Russian morphological analyzers are pymorphy (https://pythonhosted.org/pymorphy/) and solarix (http://www.solarix.ru/) - can also be useful.</p>",
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      "id": 49659,
      "author_name": "byang1",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "06/27/2014 00:28:50",
      "content": "<p>Thanks Andrey. By stop words, I meant words like <em>a, the, and</em>, see&nbsp;<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_words\">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_words</a>&nbsp;,&nbsp;not a list of words avito currently uses to block ads, although that would be far more&nbsp;useful. :)</p>",
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      "id": 49666,
      "author_name": "joycenv",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "06/27/2014 03:00:53",
      "content": "<p>I think the meaning of this thread&nbsp;has been misinterpreted, so just to be clear: I meant this is for requests for permission to use an external data source as part of your model building, not asking for external data to be provided.</p>",
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      "id": 49689,
      "author_name": "ivanguz",
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      "post_date": "06/27/2014 10:24:50",
      "content": "<p>[quote=B Yang;49644]</p>\n<p>Well,&nbsp;I suspect most of us here don't know Russian, so I suggest the competition admin&nbsp;(or at least someone who's a native Russian speaker) provide the following info:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.4\">A list of Russian stop words</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.4\">Russian language stemmer source code and&nbsp;related rules</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.4\">Lists of common Russian words and phrases with usage frequency</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.4\">Whatever&nbsp;non-Russian speakers should know about processing Russian text</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p>We can all do our own searches, but good sources are probably&nbsp;in Russian itself. It'd be great if someone can provide the&nbsp;authoritative info or sources.</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n\n<p>I suggest to use nltk python package for list of stop words.</p>\n<p>Try this&nbsp;</p>\n<p>set(nltk.corpus.stopwords.words('russian'))</p>",
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      "id": 50438,
      "author_name": "brundage",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "07/13/2014 16:18:25",
      "content": "<p>Request to use a different list of stop words.&nbsp;https://sites.google.com/site/kevinbouge/stopwords-lists</p>",
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    {
      "id": 50461,
      "author_name": "ivanguz",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "07/14/2014 06:02:49",
      "content": "<p>Approved. Go ahead and use those lists.</p>",
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      "id": 51188,
      "author_name": "vtatulin",
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      "post_date": "07/26/2014 05:02:56",
      "content": "<p>Hello!</p>\n<p>Can I use the list russian of verbs as an external data?</p>",
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      "post_date": "07/28/2014 15:55:46",
      "content": "<p>vTatulin,</p>\n<p>Can you specify which list of verbs you mean, if you would like permission?</p>",
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