CCC '11 S1 - English or French?

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Points: 5
Time limit: 2.0s
Memory limit: 64M
Problem type
Canadian Computing Competition: 2011 Stage 1, Senior #1

You would like to do some experiments in natural language processing. Natural language processing (NLP) involves using machines to recognize human languages.

Your first idea is to write a program that can distinguish English text from French text.

After some analysis, you have concluded that a very reasonable way of distinguishing these two languages is to compare the occurrences of the letters t and T to the occurrences of the letters s and S. Specifically:

  • if the given text has more t and T characters than s and S characters, we will say that it is (probably) English text;
  • if the given text has more s and S characters than t and T characters, we will say that it is (probably) French text;
  • if the number of t and T characters is the same as the number of s and S characters, we will say that it is (probably) French text.

Input Specification

The input will contain the number N (0 < N < 10\,000) followed by N lines of text, where each line has at least one character and no more than 100 characters.

Output Specification

Your output will be one line. This line will either consist of the word English (indicating the text is probably English) or French (indicating the text is probably French).

Sample Input 1

3
The red cat sat on the mat.
Why are you so sad cat?
Don't ask that.

Output for Sample Input 1

English

Sample Input 2

3
Lorsque j'avais six ans j'ai vu, une fois,
une magnifique image,
dans un livre

Output for Sample Input 2

French

(Note: Sample Input 2 is the first sentence of Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.)

Sample Input 3

4
Si je discernais ta voix encore
Connaissant ce coeur qui doute,
Tu me dirais de tirer un trait
Quoi que partir me coute.

Output for Sample Input 3

English

(Note: Sample Input 3 is added by DMOJ from Le Fantôme de l'Opéra.)

Comments


  • 0
    jasperfu1234  commented on April 16, 2022, 11:22 a.m.

    Make sure you remember to check for capital letters as well!


  • -2
    newforgotpassword  commented on Feb. 8, 2022, 1:36 p.m. ← edit 3

    im lost, my thing reads all three lines and is outputting correctly. what am i missing?


    • -1
      Spitfire720  commented on Feb. 8, 2022, 3:12 p.m.

      Your code only looks at the last line of text. Try a test case with two lines of English and one line of French.


      • -2
        newforgotpassword  commented on Feb. 8, 2022, 3:45 p.m.

        OH, ok thanks! I was testing if the first one was messed up only!


  • -3
    akshay7892  commented on Dec. 17, 2021, 2:06 a.m.

    A gentle reminder for all dumb people like me, the code takes TWO different inputs. A number and a string of text. Keep this in mind while writing the code.


    • -2
      Haoyun  commented on May 5, 2022, 10:23 a.m.

      @akshay7892 I am not dumb, I do not accept this even if it should be a gentle reminder.


    • -1
      erickkk  commented on Jan. 25, 2022, 12:50 a.m.

      Ok, but for what is the integer? it does not make any sense. im getting a wrong answer just on one test, if u could take a look at my code and say in what im messing it, i would be grateful. Thanks bro.


      • -1
        Spitfire720  commented on Jan. 25, 2022, 7:57 a.m.

        The number represents the number of lines of text. Your code fails because it only looks at the first one.


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    bowser152  commented on Sept. 26, 2021, 8:09 p.m. ← edited

    how do I keep getting test case two wrong i've tested my code out on tons of stuff and it seems functional to me anybody know why?

    nvm I had a uppercase letter where I shouldnt have


  • -2
    ChessBook504  commented on Dec. 9, 2020, 11:04 a.m.

    Does anyone know how to solve time limit issues with java in case 4?


    • -1
      BamTargetShock_Java  commented on Dec. 9, 2020, 1:30 p.m.

      There's some repeated code in your submission that can be condensed. Also, consider writing a more efficient solution.


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    redfirearne  commented on Sept. 7, 2019, 10:07 p.m. ← edit 2

    The question states:

    if the number of t and T characters is the same as the number of s and S characters, we will say that it is (probably) French text.

    However, in test case 3, I output the number of t's and s's and apparently there is 0 of each of them. But the solution is "English". I had to hardcode it to solve the problem. Please do something about it.

    Edit: or was there a problem with my code?


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      hxxr  commented on Sept. 7, 2019, 10:45 p.m. ← edited

      You are forgetting that C/C++ style input stops with all whitespace characters, so doing this:

      string str;
cin >> str;

      will read but a single word from the first line of the input. What you should be doing is reading the entire line:

      string str;
getline(cin, str);

      • -3
        QwertyDvorak  commented on Sept. 7, 2019, 11:04 p.m.

        I already AC'd by hard-coding, but why does this solution using getline WA case 3?


        • 1
          Tzak  commented on Sept. 7, 2019, 11:12 p.m.

          You should insert cin.ignore() between lines 9 and 10 to ignore the new line character which has not been read by cin >> N.


          • -1
            QwertyDvorak  commented on Sept. 7, 2019, 11:20 p.m.

            Worked, thank you!


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    HARRIBO  commented on Aug. 24, 2019, 1:11 a.m.

    Can anyone tell me what's wrong with my test case 3?


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      hxxr  commented on Aug. 24, 2019, 10:20 a.m.

      Your submission is testing each line for its language individually and then choosing the language that appeared most often in all the lines. But that's not what the question asks for.


      • -2
        Devnull1982  commented on Sept. 4, 2021, 6:53 p.m.

        Thx, I couldn't figure out what was wrong in my code. English is not my mother language so can't pick up subtle things. I thought that "given text" was referring to each input text line. With your comment I realize it was referring to the full text.


  • -1
    sankeeth_ganeswaran  commented on Feb. 10, 2019, 10:47 a.m.

    I'm not sure what's wrong with my code, I failed test case 3. Can someone help?


    • 5
      AlanL  commented on Feb. 10, 2019, 11:38 a.m. ← edited

      I don't see anything wrong with your actual code. I believe that the problem is that right after you have scanner.nextInt(), when you use scanner.nextLine() it actually reads the same line of the integer, meaning it would read nothing. So just use an extra scanner.nextLine() in between your reading of "a" and your lines, and don't use it. That hopefully should fix the problem.


  • 9
    NeverDrinkAndDerive1  commented on Dec. 25, 2018, 11:47 a.m.

    I speak french, and t actually works at guessing the language! Cool problem!


  • -4
    AmineHamoura  commented on Dec. 21, 2017, 10:32 a.m.

    I think that my submission is totaly true but i got just 40, any help or idea about what's going wrong please?!


    • -1
      ZippIE  commented on Dec. 21, 2017, 12:09 p.m.

      if the given text has more t and T characters than s and S characters

      Your program only counts then individually


      • -3
        AmineHamoura  commented on Dec. 21, 2017, 2:16 p.m.

        i do not just count but i've compared the caracters between them too?


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    Lunazoul  commented on Oct. 23, 2017, 6:03 p.m.

    I dont see how i could get test case 3 wrong. Its just a simple comparison...


    • 0
      injust  commented on Oct. 23, 2017, 7:47 p.m.

      Try rereading the problem statement, especially the classification criteria.


      • -3
        Lunazoul  commented on Oct. 24, 2017, 5:57 p.m.

        The problem was that i had an int scanner before a String


        • -2
          Frontear  commented on Nov. 26, 2019, 9:07 a.m.

          To be more specific, Scanner#nextInt doesn't go to the new line of the input. In order to force it onto the next line, you need to append a Scanner#nextLine to it.


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    Asuna_Orz  commented on March 20, 2016, 4:49 p.m.

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    • -4
      FatalEagle  commented on March 20, 2016, 6:48 p.m.

      Read the statement again (about equal).


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    BMP  commented on Nov. 27, 2014, 11:27 a.m.

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    • -4
      FatalEagle  commented on Nov. 27, 2014, 12:14 p.m.

      Either use StringBuilder or process each line as you read it. Concatenating all the lines takes O(N^2) time.


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        BMP  commented on Nov. 27, 2014, 7:10 p.m.

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