rbtagger

→ ‘rbtagger’

What

A Simple Ruby Rule-Based Part of Speech Tagger

This work is based on the work of Eric Brill

Installing

gem install rbtagger

The basics

Using the rule tagger

require 'rbtagger'

tagger = Brill::Tagger.new( File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__),"LEXICON"),
                            File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__),"LEXICALRULEFILE"),
                            File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__),"CONTEXTUALRULEFILE") )
docs.each do|doc|
  tagger.tag( File.read( doc ) )
end

tagger.suggest( File.read("sample.txt") )
=> [["doctor", "NN", 3], ["treatment", "NN", 5]]

Using the word tagger

require 'rbtagger'

tagger = Word::Tagger.new( ['cat','hat'], :words => 4 )
tags = tagger.execute( 'the cat and the hat' )
assert_equal( ["cat", "hat"], tags )

Forum

http://groups.google.com/group/rb-brill-tagger

How to submit patches

Read the 8 steps for fixing other people’s code and for section 8b: Submit patch to Google Groups, use the Google Group above.

• github: http://github.com/taf2/rb-brill-tagger/tree/master

git clone git://github.com/taf2/rb-brill-tagger.git

Build and test instructions

cd rb-brill-tagger
rake test
rake install_gem

License

This code is free to use under the terms of the MIT license.

Contact

Comments are welcome. Send an email to Todd A. Fisher email via the forum

Todd A. Fisher, 23rd June 2008
Theme extended from Paul Battley