NAME

Text::NSP::Measures::2D - Perl module that provides basic framework for building measure of association for bigrams.

SYNOPSIS

Basic Usage

 use Text::NSP::Measures::2D::MI::ll;

  my $npp = 60; my $n1p = 20; my $np1 = 20;  my $n11 = 10;

  $ll_value = calculateStatistic( n11=>$n11,
                                      n1p=>$n1p,
                                      np1=>$np1,
                                      npp=>$npp);

  if( ($errorCode = getErrorCode()))
  {
    print STDERR $errorCode." - ".getErrorMessage()."\n"";
  }
  else
  {
    print getStatisticName."value for bigram is ".$ll_value."\n"";
  }

DESCRIPTION

This module is to be used as a foundation for building 2-dimensional measures of association. The methods in this module retrieve observed bigram frequency counts, marginal totals, and also compute expected values. They also provide error checks for these counts.

With bigram or 2d measures we use variables with corresponding names to store the 2x2 contingency table to store the frequency counts associated with each word in the bigram, as well as the number of times the bigram occurs. A contingency table looks like

            |word2  | not-word2|
            --------------------
    word1   | n11   |   n12    |  n1p
  not-word1 | n21   |   n22    |  n2p
            --------------------
              np1       np2       npp

Marginal Frequencies:

  n1p = the number of bigrams where the first word is word1.
  np1 = the number of bigrams where the second word is word2.
  n2p = the number of bigrams where the first word is not word1.
  np2 = the number of bigrams where the second word is not word2.

  These marginal totals are stored in variables which have names
  corresponding to the cell they represent. These values may then be
  referred to as follows:

        $n1p,
        $np1,
        $n2p,
        $np2,
        $npp

Observed Frequencies:

  n11 = number of times the bigram occurs, joint frequency
  n12 = number of times word1 occurs in the first position of a bigram
        when word2 does not occur in the second position.
  n21 = number of times word2 occurs in the second position of a
        bigram when word1 does not occur in the first position.
  n22 = number of bigrams where word1 is not in the first position and
        word2 is not in the second position.

  The observed frequencies are also stored in variables with corresponding names.
  These values may then be referred to as follows:


        $n11,
        $n12,
        $n21,
        $n22

Expected Frequencies:

  m11 = expected number of times both words in the bigram occur
        together if they are independent. (n1p*np1/npp)
  m12 = expected number of times word1 in the bigram will occur in
        the first position when word2 does not occur in the second
        position given that the words are independent. (n1p*np2/npp)
  m21 = expected number of times word2 in the bigram will occur
        in the second position when word1 does not occur in the first
        position given that the words are independent. (np1*n2p/npp)
  m22 = expected number of times word1 will not occur in the first
        position and word2 will not occur in the second position
        given that the words are independent. (n2p*np2/npp)

  Similarly the expected values are stored as

        $m11,
        $m12,
        $m21,
        $m22

Methods

computeObservedValues() - A method to compute observed values, and also to verify that the computed Observed values are correct, That is they are positive, less than the marginal totals and the total bigram count.: INPUT PARAMS : $count_values .. Reference to an hash consisting of the count values passed to the calculateStatistic() method.
RETURN VALUES : 1/undef ..returns '1' to indicate success and an undefined(NULL) value to indicate failure.
computeExpectedValues() - A method to compute expected values.: INPUT PARAMS :none
RETURN VALUES : 1/undef ..returns '1' to indicate success and an undefined(NULL) value to indicate failure.
computeMarginalTotals() - This method computes the marginal totals from the count values as passed to it.: INPUT PARAMS : $count_values .. Reference to an hash consisting of the frequency combination output.
RETURN VALUES : 1/undef ..returns '1' to indicate success and an undefined(NULL) value to indicate failure.

AUTHOR

Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota Duluth <tpederse@d.umn.edu>

Satanjeev Banerjee, Carnegie Mellon University <satanjeev@cmu.edu>

Amruta Purandare, University of Pittsburgh <amruta@cs.pitt.edu>

Bridget Thomson-McInnes, University of Minnesota Twin Cities <bthompson@d.umn.edu>

Saiyam Kohli, University of Minnesota Duluth <kohli003@d.umn.edu>

HISTORY

Last updated: $Id: 2D.pm,v 1.28 2008/03/26 17:25:13 tpederse Exp $

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