severinsimmler / forpus

Forpus is a Python library for processing plain text corpora to various corpus formats.

Forpus is a Python library for processing plain text corpora to various corpus formats. In most cases, each NLP tool uses its own idiosyncratic input format. This library helps you to convert a corpus very easy to the desired format.

It is called Forpus, because you are formatting a corpus, but this is also a genus of parrot in the family Psittacidae.

This library supports conversions to

• JSON
• Document-term matrix
• Graph
  • GEXF
  • GML
  • GraphML
  • Pajek
  • SparseGraph6
  • YAML
• David Blei's LDA-C
• Thorsten Joachims' SVM^light

Requirements

Forpus requires Python 3.6 and some additional libraries:

• pandas, at least v0.21.1.
• networkx, at least v2.0.
• metadata-toolbox, at least v0.1.

See Getting Started for how to install Forpus.

Resources

• Forpus website
• Forpus API documentation
• Forpus tutorial