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+Pattern is a web mining module for the Python programming language.
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+It bundles tools for data retrieval (Google + Twitter + Wikipedia API, web spider,
+HTML DOM parser), text analysis (rule-based shallow parser, WordNet interface,
+syntactical + semantical n-gram search algorithm, tf-idf + cosine similarity +
+LSA metrics), clustering and classification (k-means, k-NN, SVM), and data
+visualization (graph networks).
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+The module is bundled with 30+ examples and 350+ unit tests.
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+Pattern is written for Python 2.5+ (no support for Python 3 yet).
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+The source code is licensed under BSD and available from
+http://www.clips.ua.ac.be/pages/pattern.