tecoholic / TreebankTokenizer

JavaScript Port of the Python NLTK Treebank Tokenizer

Treebank Tokenizer

This is a JavaScript port of the Treebank Tokenizer from the Python NLTK library.

Description

• The code is written in TypeScript and tests are written in JavaScript using Jest.
• Uses ESBuild for compiling it into a library

Usage

1. Tokenization of a sentence

const TreebankTokenizer =  require("treebank-tokenizer");

t = new TreebankTokenizer();

t.tokenize("This is a sentence.");

Output

['This', 'is', 'a', 'sentence', '.']

2. Getting the position of the tokens

const TreebankTokenizer = require("treebank-tokenizer");

t = new TreebankTokenizer();

t.span_tokenize("This is a sentence.");

Output

[ [ 0, 4 ], [ 5, 7 ], [ 8, 9 ], [ 10, 18 ], [ 18, 19 ] ]

Development

Clone and install dependencies using NPM

npm install

Running tests and coverage

npm run test
npm run test-coverage

Contribution

Kindly open issues, fork and provide pull requests where improvements are possible.