Aw: Counting the number of repeated phrases in a column

From: Karsten Hilbert <Karsten(dot)Hilbert(at)gmx(dot)net>
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Subject: Aw: Counting the number of repeated phrases in a column
Date: 2022-01-25 17:22:06
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> There is a short of a function in the standard Postgres to do the following:
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> it is easy to count the number of occurrence of words, but it is rather difficult to count the number of occurrence of phrases.
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> For instance:
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> A cell of value:  'Hello World' means 1 occurrence a phrase.
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> A cell of value: 'Hello World World Hello' means no occurrence of any repeated phrase.
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> But, A cell of value: 'Hello World World Hello Hello World' means 2 occurrences of 'Hello World'.
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> 'The City of London, London' also has no occurrences of any repeated phrase.
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> Anyone has got such a function to check out the number of occurrence of any repeated phrases?

For that to become answerable you may want to define what to
do when facing ambiguity.

Best,
Karsten

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