[ngram] more details on performance issues that led to NSP 0.97 release

2006-06-21 Thread ted pedersen
As we have introduced object oriented programming to the Ngram Statistics Package, we and a number of users have noticed some slowdown as we moved from version 0.73 (the last non-OO version) to versions 0.91, 0.93, and 0.95. For example, the time for running a large number of ll tests went fro

[ngram] Ngram Statistics Package version 0.97 released

2006-06-21 Thread ted pedersen
We are pleased to announce the release of version 0.97 of the Ngram Statistics Package. You can download this from CPAN or Sourceforge via links found at the NSP home page: http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse/nsp.html or http://ngram.sourceforge.net/ Version 0.97 includes all of the functionali