wink-pos-tagger

wink-pos-tagger

English Part-of-speech (POS) tagger

Perform part-of-speech tagging of english sentences using wink-pos-tagger. It is a part of wink — a growing family of high quality packages for Statistical Analysis, Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning in NodeJS.

Installation

Use npm to install:

npm install wink-pos-tagger --save

Getting Started

The code below illustrates the steps required to pos tag a sentence:

// Load wink-pos-tagger.
var posTagger = require( 'wink-pos-tagger' );

// Create an instance of the pos tagger.
var tagger = posTagger();

// Tag the sentence using the tag sentence api.
tagger.tagSentence( 'He is trying to fish for fish in the lake.' );
// -> [ { value: 'He', tag: 'word', normal: 'he', pos: 'PRP' },
//      { value: 'is', tag: 'word', normal: 'is', pos: 'VBZ', lemma: 'be' },
//      { value: 'trying', tag: 'word', normal: 'trying', pos: 'VBG', lemma: 'try' },
//      { value: 'to', tag: 'word', normal: 'to', pos: 'TO' },
//      { value: 'fish', tag: 'word', normal: 'fish', pos: 'VB', lemma: 'fish' },
//      { value: 'for', tag: 'word', normal: 'for', pos: 'IN' },
//      { value: 'fish', tag: 'word', normal: 'fish', pos: 'NN', lemma: 'fish' },
//      { value: 'in', tag: 'word', normal: 'in', pos: 'IN' },
//      { value: 'the', tag: 'word', normal: 'the', pos: 'DT' },
//      { value: 'lake', tag: 'word', normal: 'lake', pos: 'NN', lemma: 'lake' },
//      { value: '.', tag: 'punctuation', normal: '.', pos: '.' } ]

Notice the way instances of the word "fish" have been tagged as verb and noun.

Documentation

Check out the pos tagger API documentation to learn more.

Need Help?

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.

Copyright & License

wink-pos-tagger is copyright 2017-18 GRAYPE Systems Private Limited.

It is licensed under the under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 3 of the License.