Hi Jacke,
[Sorry for this delayed response, but private work & other stuff has taken me away from this Forum for over two months, and I'm now trying to catch up...]
Were you looking for a full-fledged "data mining" app (using sophisticated statistical or AI methods), or a simpler string-counting app?
In the former category, there are quite a few commercial apps/suites available (e.g., see the listings at various online directories such as Apple's own
Mac Products Guide - Programming - Artificial Intelligence or
Mac Products Guide - Information Processing - Numerical and Non-Numerical Analysis, or the independent
Open Directory Project - Computers:Software:Information Retrieval or
SearchBeat - Information Retrieval or
Oingo - Information Retrieval Software, etc.). However, these solutions tend to be expensive, and many are tailored to non-Mac platforms. If you're inclined towards writing your own app, you could try lifting algorithms from a good textbook on AI / Machine Learning techniques such as neural networks.
In the latter category, I can't recall any existing utilities offhand, but you could try querying the usual suspects such as
VersionTracker or
Pure Mac, etc. Again, if you're so inclined, it mightn't be too hard to code your own app. For instance, a slow brute-force method would be to "guess" each potential target string (by successively picking character-sequences from the text) and then search for duplicates, repeating until all possibilities have been exhausted; this method would be suitable only for a short piece of unstructured text. Alternatively, if the text is known to be structured in some way, you could parse the entire text into a group of "words" (using the appropriate delimiter), and then sort/analyse those extracted word-strings to detect & count duplicates.
Regards,
--Paul
[ 07-25-2001: Message edited by: Paul Crawford ]
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