def profile(self, text):
        ''' Create FreqDist of trigrams within text '''
        from nltk import word_tokenize, FreqDist

        clean_text = self.remove_punctuation(text)
        tokens = word_tokenize(clean_text)
        
        fingerprint = FreqDist()
        for t in tokens:
            token_trigram_tuples = trigrams(self._START_CHAR + t + self._END_CHAR)
            token_trigrams = [''.join(tri) for tri in token_trigram_tuples]

            for cur_trigram in token_trigrams:
                if cur_trigram in fingerprint:
                    fingerprint[cur_trigram] += 1
                else:
                    fingerprint[cur_trigram] = 1

        return fingerprint
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