[Solved] CS372 Homework #2-find lexical items D

In the previous homework, we were supposed to search for a triple, (A, B, C), where an expression A is an intensified version of B with respect to the intensifier C. The success of the search depended much on the presence of the intensifier C, such as very or highly, which occurs with B in a corpus. Note that such intensifiers are mostly general-purpose, in the sense that they are not specific to a particular lexical item to modify. That is, we can use the adverb very to modify nearly any adjectives or adverbs.

For this homework, the goal is to find lexical items D that increase the intensity of a very restricted group of lexical items E that they modify, often to the extreme, such as pitch black, dead center, deathly sick, stark contrast, and so on. In particular, your task is to list as many pairs of such D and E as possible in an automated manner, ranking the output in a descending order of how restrictive such pairing is. As before, you may choose your own text corpora, but use techniques that can be implemented in Python and NLTK. You should not include any specific clause for particular lexical items, such as dead or center, in your program.

• Write a Python code to access some text corpora and to output ranked expressions.
• Include the first 100 expressions in a descending order of uniqueness for such pairing.
• Discuss your results, to argue why they are reasonably ranked, and to suggest how you can improve the quality of the results further.

All the requirements as underlined above must be composed by yourself and without help from anyone else, including the related resources on the Internet, if any. Any similarity of the results will be flagged for plagiarism and, if found sufficiently similar, penalized, up to, but not limited to, a failure to this homework.