CS 6364 Homework 1

CS 6364 Homework 1

All assignments MUST have your name, student ID, course name/number at the beginning of your documents.
Your homework MUST be submitted via Blackboard with file format and name convention as follows:
HW# Name writeup.pdf (for writing part)
HW# Name code.zip (for coding part)
If you have any questions, please contact me.
You have 11 tasks to finish, please write all codes in a single code file called ”hw1.py” rather than 11 files.
• Task 1: Test Python Environment
Try to install python3 environment, copy and paste following codes into file ”hw1.py”(note that python is
indentation sensitive), and run it in the terminal with ”python hw1.py” or in your preferred IDE, such as
Pycharm or Anaconda.
d e f t a s k 1 ( ) :
p r i n t ” h e l l o world ”
i f n am e == ’ m ai n ’ :
t a s k 1 ( )
Note, when you copy and paste the code, please be careful with the proper quotation marks.
• Task 2: Define Object
Define a function called ’task2’ to assign items= [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] as a list object, and print the list.
• Task 3: File Reading
Create a file called ’task3.data.’ and type string ’1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10’ in it without quotation marks, and
then write a function to read the file and load the string as two list-objects items1 = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5], items2 =
[6, 7, 8, 9, 10]. Print the lists finally.
• Task 4: Data Structure
It is important to be familiar with the functions of dictionary: items(), keys(), values(), write a program to
use all these functions.
Notes: Dictionary has two ways to initialize
data = dict()
data[’school’] = ’UAlbany’
data[’address’] = ’1400 Washington Ave, Albany, NY 12222’
data[’phone’] = ’(518) 442-3300’
data = {’school’: ’UAlbany’, ’address’: ’1400 Washington Ave, Albany, NY 12222’, ’phone’: ’(518) 442-3300’}
Print the results as follows by accessing the defined dictionary.
school: UAlbany
address: 1400 Washington Ave, Albany, NY 12222
phone: (518) 442-3300
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• Task 5: Data Serialization
Use json to store above dictionary in task-5 and then print item, key and values.
Notes: This task tells how to store a dictionary object to a file and then load the dictionary object from the
file. In python, object of any type can be mostly saved in json format to a txt file.
You need to be familiar with the following two json functions : json.dumps(object), which dumps an object to a json format (string), json.loads(a json format string), which loads a json format string back to the
original object. We do not care about if the original object is list, dictionary or others. json.dumps() can
automatically recognize.
Note, json.load(object) only can only load an object, not a file.
• Task 6: Data Serialization
Store a number of different types objects (e.g., list, dictionary, array) to a file and then load the objects from
the file.
Write a function to dump list object items = [1,2,3,4,5] and above dictionary in task-5 to a file called
’task6.data’, and then load them from the same file and print.
• Task 7: Data Preprocessing
Read the tweets from the file ”CrimeReport.txt” and print the id for each tweet.
Here are some functions that you will use in the task: open().readlines(), tweet = json.loads(), print tweet.keys(),
you will know the keys of tweet dictionary object, then you can find which key relates to tweet id, and you
can then retrieve the id of this specific tweet.
• Task 8: Data Preprocessing: tweets filtering
INPUT: ”CrimeReport.txt”
OUTPUT: a file ”task8.data” that stores the 10 most recent tweets
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Suggestions:
tweet[0
created − at0
] gives the created time of this tweet. Rank tweets based on the time from the earliest to
the most recent. Then we can identify the 10 most recent tweets. Some example lines that are not directly
runnable
import d a te time
tw e e t s = [ ]
f o r l i n e i n open ( ) . r e a d l i n e s ( ) :
twee t = j s o n . l o a d s ( l i n e )
tw e e t s . append ( twee t )
#d a te time . d a te time . s t r p tim e ( item [ ’ c r e a t e d −at ’ ] , ’%a %b %d %H:%M:%S +0000 %Y’ )
#c o n v e r t s the s t r i n g fo rma t o f a d a te time t o the d a te time o b j e c t
s o r t e d t w e e t s = s o r t e d ( twee t s , key = lambda item :
d a te time . d a te time . s t r p tim e ( item [ ’ c r e a t e d −at ’ ] , ’%a %b %d %H:%M:%S +0000 %Y’ ) )
# s o r t e d tw e e t s based on time .
f = open ( ’ output . tx t ’ , ’w’ )
f o r twee t i n s o r t e d t w e e t s [ −5 : ] :
f . w ri t e ( j s o n . dumps ( twee t ) + ’ \ ’ )
f . c l o s e ( )
Note, when you copy and paste the code above, please be careful with the proper indentation and quotation
mark.
• Task 9: File operations
INPUT :CrimeReport.txt: in this file, each line is a raw tweet json format.
output-folder: where new results will be stored
REQUIREMENT: read tweets and separate these tweets in to groups based on the specific hours (Mon-DayYear-Hour). The tweets related to a specific hour will be stored in a separate file in the folder ”task9-output”
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with the file name ”Mon-Day-Year-Hour.txt”
OUTPUT: new files generated and stored in the folder ”task9-output”, in which each file stores the tweets
corresponding to a specific hour.
• Task 10: NLP and Sentiment Analysis
Write a function to calculate the sentiment score of each tweet text in the raw tweet file
”CrimeReport.txt” and print out the sentiment score for each tweet.
The next step, is to separete tweets into tweets with positive sentiments and tweets with negative sentiments
and store them into two different files: ”positive-entiment-tweets.txt” and ”negative-sentiment-tweets.txt”
”https://github.com/clips/pattern”
search ”sentiment”, you will find the following information:
Written text can be broadly categorized into two types: facts and opinions. Opinions carry people’s sentiments, appraisals and feelings toward the world. The pattern.en module bundles a lexicon of adjectives
(e.g., good, bad, amazing, irritating, ...) that occur frequently in product reviews, annotated with scores for
sentiment polarity (positive ←→ negative) and subjectivity (objective ←→ subjective).
The sentiment() function returns a (polarity, subjectivity)-tuple for the given sentence, based on the adjectives it contains, where polarity is a value between -1.0 and +1.0 and subjectivity between 0.0 and 1.0. The
sentence can be a string, Text, Sentence, Chunk, Word or a Synset (see below).
The positive() function returns True if the given sentence’s polarity is above the threshold. The threshold can be lowered or raised, but overall +0.1 gives the best results for product reviews. Accuracy is about
75% for movie reviews. sentiment(sentence) # Returns a (polarity, subjectivity)-tuple. Note that,function
sentiment(sentence) will return a tuple, not a value;function positive(sentence, threshold) will return
a value.
positive(s, threshold=0.1) # Returns True if polarity ≥ threshold.
 from pattern.en import sentiment

 print sentiment(”The movie attempts to be surreal by incorporating various time paradoxes,”
 ”but it’s presented in such a ridiculous way it’s seriously boring.”)
(-0.34, 1.0)
In the example above, -0.34 is the average of surreal, various, ridiculous and seriously boring. To retrieve
the scores for individual words, use the special assessments property, which yields a list of (words,polarity,
subjectivity, label)-tuples.
 print sentiment(’Wonderfully awful! :-)’).assessments
[([’wonderfully’, ’awful’, ’!’], -1.0, 1.0, None), ([’:-]’), 0.5, 1.0, ’mood’)]
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