compromise

modest natural-language processing in javascript

_{by Spencer Kelly and many contributors}

save yourself from regex-whackamole🤞:

nlp(entireNovel).sentences().if('the #Adjective of times').out()
// "it was the blurst of times??"

move things around:

nlp('she sells seashells by the seashore.').sentences().toFutureTense().out()
// 'she will sell seashells...'

respond to text input:

if( doc.has('^simon says (shoot|fire) #Determiner lazer') ){
  fireLazer()
} else {
  dontFire()
}

compromise is not the cleverest.
but it is small, quick, and good-enough for a bunch of stuff.

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<script src>         one javascript file

🙏     npm install compromise

86%     on the Penn treebank

IE9+       caniuse, youbetcha

⚡️ on the Client-side

<script src="https://unpkg.com/compromise@latest/builds/compromise.min.js"></script>
<script>
  var doc = nlp('dinosaur')

  var str = doc.nouns().toPlural().out('text')
  console.log(str)
  // 'dinosaurs'
</script>

🌋 Server-side!

var nlp = require('compromise')

var doc = nlp('London is calling')
doc.sentences().toNegative()
// 'London is not calling'

Get the hang of things:

Tutorial #1           Input → output

Tutorial #2           Match & transform

Tutorial #3           Making a bot

Detailed docs:

API

Full Tagset

Plugins

Outputs

Match Syntax

Examples:

Part-of-Speech tagging           nouns! verbs! adjectives!	Named-entities                 people, places, organizations	Number parsing                 seven hundred and fifty == 750
Grammar-match         like a regex for a sentence	Verb conjugation           all your base are belong	Normalization           case, whitespace, contractions..

• Plural/singular: - grab the noun-phrases, make em plural:

doc = nlp('a bottle of beer on the wall.')
doc.nouns(0).toPlural()
doc.out('text')
//'The bottles of beer on the wall.'

• Number parsing: - parse written-out numbers, and change their form:

doc = nlp('ninety five thousand and fifty two')
doc.values().toNumber().out()
// '95052'

doc = nlp('the 23rd of December')
doc.values().add(2).toText()
doc.out('text')
// 'the twenty fifth of December'

• Normalization: - handle looseness & variety of random text:

doc = nlp("the guest-singer's björk   at seven thirty.").normalize().out('text')
// 'The guest singer is Bjork at 7:30.'

• Tense: - switch to/from conjugations of any verb

let doc = nlp('she sells seashells by the seashore.')
doc.sentences().toFutureTense().out('text')
//'she will sell seashells...'

doc.verbs().conjugate()
// [{ PastTense: 'sold',
//    Infinitive: 'sell',
//    Gerund: 'selling', ...
// }]

• Contractions: - grab, expand and contract:

doc = nlp("we're not gonna take it, no we ain't gonna take it.")
doc.has('going') // true
doc.match('are not').length // == 2
doc.contractions().expand().out()
//'we are not going to take it, no we are not going to take it'

• Named-entities: - get the people, places, organizations:

doc = nlp('the opera about richard nixon visiting china')
doc.topics().data()
// [
//   { text: 'richard nixon' },
//   { text: 'china' }
// ]

• Custom lexicon: - make it do what you'd like:

var lexicon={
  'boston': 'MusicalGroup'
}
doc = nlp('i heard Boston\'s set in Chicago', lexicon)

//alternatively, fix it 'in-post':
doc.match('heard #Possessive set').terms(1).tag('MusicalGroup')

• Handy outputs: - get sensible data:

doc = nlp('We like Roy! We like Roy!').sentences().out('array')
// ['We like Roy!', 'We like Roy!']

doc = nlp('Tony Hawk').out('html')
/*
<span>
  <span class="nl-Person nl-FirstName">Tony</span>
  <span>&nbsp;</span>
  <span class="nl-Person nl-LastName">Hawk</span>
</span>
*/

• Plugins: - allow adding vocabulary, fixing errors, and setting context quickly:

var plugin = {
  tags:{
    Character:{
      isA: 'Noun'
    }
  },
  words:{
    itchy: 'Character',
    scratchy: 'Character'
  }
}
nlp.plugin(plugin)
nlp(`Couldn't Itchy share his pie with Scratchy?`).debug()
/*
   couldn't   - #Modal, #Verb
   itchy      - #Character, #Noun
   share      - #Infinitive, #Verb
   ...
*/

of course, there's a lot more stuff.

Join in - we're fun, using semver, and moving fast:

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☂️ Isn't javascript too...




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💃 Can it run on my arduino-watch?


quickStart

🌎 Other Languages?


GermanFrench


✨ Partial builds?



this gif

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Also:

•   naturalNode - fancier statistical nlp in javascript
•   superScript - clever conversation engine in js
•   nodeBox Linguistics - conjugation, inflection in javascript
•   reText - very impressive text utilities in javascript
•   jsPos - javascript build of the time-tested Brill-tagger
•   spaCy - speedy, multilingual tagger in C/python

For the former promise-library, see jnewman/compromise (Thanks Joshua!)

(and don't forget 🙇 NLTK, GATE, Stanford, and Illinois libs )