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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Is there a good way to do this? I am thinking one could (taking English as an example) treat each word as a base-26 number (o.ne, t.wo, t.hree, ...) and divide them by 26 to normalize values between 0 and 1.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Yes, that’s exactly the way to do it!