wink-tokenizer

Multilingual tokenizer that automatically tags each token with its type

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Tokenize sentences in Latin and Devanagari scripts using wink-tokenizer. Some of it's top feature are outlined below:

1. Support for English, French, German, Hindi, Sanskrit, Marathi and many more.

1. Intelligent tokenization of sentence containing words in more than one language.

1. Automatic detection & tagging of different types of tokens based on their features:
- These include word, punctuation, email, mention, hashtag, emoticon, and emoji etc.
- User definable token types.

1. High performance – tokenizes a typical english sentence at speed of over 2.4 million tokens/second and a complex tweet containing hashtags, emoticons, emojis, mentions, e-mail at a speed of over 1.5 million tokens/second (benchmarked on 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7 machine with 16GB RAM).

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Use npm to install:

npm install wink-tokenizer --save

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``javascript
// Load tokenizer.
var tokenizer = require( 'wink-tokenizer' );
// Create it's instance.
var myTokenizer = tokenizer();

// Tokenize a tweet.
var s = '@superman: hit me up on my email r2d2@gmail.com, 2 of us plan party🎉 tom at 3pm:) #fun';
myTokenizer.tokenize( s );
// -> [ { value: '@superman', tag: 'mention' },
// { value: ':', tag: 'punctuation' },
// { value: 'hit', tag: 'word' },
// { value: 'me', tag: 'word' },
// { value: 'up', tag: 'word' },
// { value: 'on', tag: 'word' },
// { value: 'my', tag: 'word' },
// { value: 'email', tag: 'word' },
// { value: 'r2d2@gmail.com', tag: 'email' },
// { value: ',', tag: 'punctuation' },
// { value: '2', tag: 'number' },
// { value: 'of', tag: 'word' },
// { value: 'us', tag: 'word' },
// { value: 'plan', tag: 'word' },
// { value: 'party', tag: 'word' },
// { value: '🎉', tag: 'emoji' },
// { value: 'tom', tag: 'word' },
// { value: 'at', tag: 'word' },
// { value: '3pm', tag: 'time' },
// { value: ':)', tag: 'emoticon' },
// { value: '#fun', tag: 'hashtag' } ]

// Tokenize a French sentence.
s = 'Mieux vaut prévenir que guérir:-)';
myTokenizer.tokenize( s );
// -> [ { value: 'Mieux', tag: 'word' },
// { value: 'vaut', tag: 'word' },
// { value: 'prévenir', tag: 'word' },
// { value: 'que', tag: 'word' },
// { value: 'guérir', tag: 'word' },
// { value: ':-)', tag: 'emoticon' } ]

// Tokenize a sentence containing Hindi and English.
s = 'द्रविड़ ने टेस्ट में ३६ शतक जमाए, उनमें 21 विदेशी playground पर हैं।';
myTokenizer.tokenize( s );
// -> [ { value: 'द्रविड़', tag: 'word' },
// { value: 'ने', tag: 'word' },
// { value: 'टेस्ट', tag: 'word' },
// { value: 'में', tag: 'word' },
// { value: '३६', tag: 'number' },
// { value: 'शतक', tag: 'word' },
// { value: 'जमाए', tag: 'word' },
// { value: ',', tag: 'punctuation' },
// { value: 'उनमें', tag: 'word' },
// { value: '21', tag: 'number' },
// { value: 'विदेशी', tag: 'word' },
// { value: 'playground', tag: 'word' },
// { value: 'पर', tag: 'word' },
// { value: 'हैं', tag: 'word' },
// { value: '।', tag: 'punctuation' } ]
``

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Check out the tokenizer API documentation to learn more.

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If you spot a bug and the same has not yet been reported, raise a new issue or consider fixing it and sending a pull request.

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Wink is a family of open source packages for Statistical Analysis, Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning in NodeJS. The code is thoroughly documented for easy human comprehension and has a test coverage of ~100% for reliability to build production grade solutions.

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wink-tokenizer is copyright 2017-21 GRAYPE Systems Private Limited.

It is licensed under the terms of the MIT License.