Odd results for ". . ."

[nickom]

http://capitolwords.org/term/..._/

Found because it was listed as the top 5 word phrase for this date: http://capitolwords.org/date/2014/04/28/

[drinks]

Yeah, this is a known issue. We use an ngram parser similar to Google's, which treats punctuation as distinct tokens. I believe these are low-volume days that have either sequences of dots in rollcalls or similar 'table of contents' style pages. Definitely on the list.

[nickom]

Gotcha. The other thing that was so odd to me was that the highlighted examples had letters in them:

[drinks]

Guessing that's a separate issue related to. being the regexp for 'match any character,' code here: https://github.com/sunlightlabs/Capitol-Words/blob/2bf155cd586847ea32ed294a8a3e6997e822199e/cwod_site/cwod/views.py#L318-L332

[nickom]

Also, shorter versions of the dots are the top words and their links go to some server errors or 404s. Here are the links for the top words on that day:

Two words (not found): http://capitolwords.org/term/

Three words (server error): http://capitolwords.org/term/._/

Four words: http://capitolwords.org/term/../

Five words: http://capitolwords.org/term/..._/