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The Case of the Blah Blah Blahs

The Case of the Blah Blah Blahs

Dec 08, 2020 · Adrianne Jeffries

  • government
  • history
  • technoloy
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Summary

A famous dataset of Reuters articles from the 1980s includes “Blah blah blah.” in place of some stories. Why?

Show notes

  • The link Jess sent
  • SGML
  • This is what the blahs look like and this is what all the entries look like.
  • FTP
  • Linguistic Data Consortium
  • RCV1 at NIST and David D. Lewis’s README
  • Construe-TIS: A System for Content-Based Indexing of a Database of News Stories (Phil Hayes and Steven Weinstein)

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