lpereir4 / treetagger-python

A Python module for interfacing with the Treetagger by Helmut Schmid.

treetagger-python

A Python module for interfacing with the Treetagger by Helmut Schmid.

Copyright (C) 2013 Mirko Otto

For license information, see LICENSE.txt

Dependencies

• TreeTagger
• Python 2.6
• NLTK

INSTALLATION

Before you install the treetagger-python package please ensure you have downloaded and installed the TreeTagger itself.

The TreeTagger is a copyrighted software by Helmut Schmid and IMS, please read the license agreement before you download the TreeTagger package and language models.

After the installation of the TreeTagger set the environment variable TREETAGGER_HOME to the installation directory of the TreeTagger.

export TREETAGGER_HOME='/path/to/your/TreeTagger/'

Usage

Tagging a sentence from Python:

from treetagger import TreeTagger
tt = TreeTagger(encoding='latin-1',language='english')
tt.tag('What is the airspeed of an unladen swallow?')

The output is a list of [token, tag, lemma]:

[[u'What', u'WP', u'What'],
[u'is', u'VBZ', u'be'],
[u'the', u'DT', u'the'],
[u'airspeed', u'NN', u'airspeed'],
[u'of', u'IN', u'of'],
[u'an', u'DT', u'an'],
[u'unladen', u'JJ', u'<unknown>'],
[u'swallow', u'NN', u'swallow'],
[u'?', u'SENT', u'?']]