
Tag Archives: python
spaCy
Extremely promising new Python NLP tool: spaCy (commercial open-source software):
Unfortunately, it is only able to deal with English input at the moment and installation on Windows seems to be tricky. The project is currently under intense development and it will be interesting to check the following links on a regular basis:
License: AGPLv3 (free for open-source projects), changed to MIT License (27 Sep 2015)
Source: http://spacy.io/index.html#detailed-speed-comparison [accessed: 24/07/2015]
Recent overview of Python NLP resources on DataScienceCentral
Link to community-edited list on Pansop
Source: http://www.datasciencecentral.com/profiles/blogs/python-nlp-tools [accessed: 24/07/2015]
Running TextSTAT on Linux
Tested on: Xubuntu 12.04 LTS (64-bit), using default python interpreter (v2.7.3)
[Last update: 04/03/2014]
- Install/check for TextSTAT dependencies:
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sudo apt-get install python-tk
- Download latest release (check here for latest version number) and run TextSTAT:
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mkdir TextSTAT cd TextSTAT wget http://neon.niederlandistik.fu-berlin.de/static/textstat/TextSTAT-2.9c-source.zip unzip TextSTAT-2.9c-source.zip chmod +x TextSTAT.pyw ./TextSTAT.pyw
- Download icon and create desktop shortcut (copy-paste [Desktop Entry] into a new file called
TextSTAT.desktop
on your Desktop, don’t forget to adapt the full path toTextSTAT.pyw
and textstat_logo.gif
):
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wget http://neon.niederlandistik.fu-berlin.de/static/textstat/textstat_logo.gif
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[Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Type=Application Name=TextSTAT 2.9c Comment=Concordancing Program written in Python Exec=/path/to/TextSTAT/TextSTAT.pyw Icon=/path/to/TextSTAT/textstat_logo.gif