Advas

Advas is a python module which provides algorithms for advanced search. These methods are mainly used in information retrieval and linguistics.

This package contains:
- statistical algorithms
- term frequency (tf)
- term frequency with stop list
- inverse document frequency (idf)
- retrieval status value (rsv)
- language detection by keywords
- k-nearest neighbour algorithm (kNN)
- stemming algorithms
- sound-like methods
- a simple descriptor-based ranking algorithm
- text search algorithms
The documentation describes each function with its purpose, parameters and the result (return value). A number of examples are included which display the use of each function or algorithm.