# Natural Language Toolkit: Taggers # # Copyright (C) 2001-2012 NLTK Project # Author: Edward Loper # Steven Bird (minor additions) # URL: # For license information, see LICENSE.TXT """ NLTK Taggers This package contains classes and interfaces for part-of-speech tagging, or simply "tagging". A "tag" is a case-sensitive string that specifies some property of a token, such as its part of speech. Tagged tokens are encoded as tuples ``(tag, token)``. For example, the following tagged token combines the word ``'fly'`` with a noun part of speech tag (``'NN'``): >>> tagged_tok = ('fly', 'NN') An off-the-shelf tagger is available. It uses the Penn Treebank tagset: >>> from nltk.tag import pos_tag >>> from nltk.tokenize import word_tokenize >>> pos_tag(word_tokenize("John's big idea isn't all that bad.")) [('John', 'NNP'), ("'s", 'POS'), ('big', 'JJ'), ('idea', 'NN'), ('is', 'VBZ'), ("n't", 'RB'), ('all', 'DT'), ('that', 'DT'), ('bad', 'JJ'), ('.', '.')] This package defines several taggers, which take a token list (typically a sentence), assign a tag to each token, and return the resulting list of tagged tokens. Most of the taggers are built automatically based on a training corpus. For example, the unigram tagger tags each word *w* by checking what the most frequent tag for *w* was in a training corpus: >>> from nltk.corpus import brown >>> from nltk.tag import UnigramTagger >>> tagger = UnigramTagger(brown.tagged_sents(categories='news')[:500]) >>> tagger.tag(['Mitchell', 'decried', 'the', 'high', 'rate', 'of', 'unemployment']) [('Mitchell', 'NP'), ('decried', None), ('the', 'AT'), ('high', 'JJ'), ('rate', 'NN'), ('of', 'IN'), ('unemployment', None)] Note that words that the tagger has not seen during training receive a tag of ``None``. We evaluate a tagger on data that was not seen during training: >>> tagger.evaluate(brown.tagged_sents(categories='news')[500:600]) # doctest: +ELLIPSIS 0.734... For more information, please consult chapter 5 of the NLTK Book. """ from nltk.tag.api import TaggerI from nltk.tag.util import str2tuple, tuple2str, untag from nltk.tag.simplify import (simplify_brown_tag, simplify_wsj_tag, simplify_indian_tag, simplify_alpino_tag, simplify_tag) from nltk.tag.sequential import (SequentialBackoffTagger, ContextTagger, DefaultTagger, NgramTagger, UnigramTagger, BigramTagger, TrigramTagger, AffixTagger, RegexpTagger, ClassifierBasedTagger, ClassifierBasedPOSTagger) from nltk.tag.brill import BrillTagger, BrillTaggerTrainer, FastBrillTaggerTrainer from nltk.tag.tnt import TnT from nltk.tag.hunpos import HunposTagger from nltk.tag.stanford import StanfordTagger from nltk.tag.crf import MalletCRF from nltk.data import load # Import hmm module if numpy is installed try: import numpy from nltk.tag.hmm import HiddenMarkovModelTagger, HiddenMarkovModelTrainer except ImportError: pass # Standard treebank POS tagger _POS_TAGGER = 'taggers/maxent_treebank_pos_tagger/english.pickle' def pos_tag(tokens): """ Use NLTK's currently recommended part of speech tagger to tag the given list of tokens. >>> from nltk.tag import pos_tag >>> from nltk.tokenize import word_tokenize >>> pos_tag(word_tokenize("John's big idea isn't all that bad.")) [('John', 'NNP'), ("'s", 'POS'), ('big', 'JJ'), ('idea', 'NN'), ('is', 'VBZ'), ("n't", 'RB'), ('all', 'DT'), ('that', 'DT'), ('bad', 'JJ'), ('.', '.')] :param tokens: Sequence of tokens to be tagged :type tokens: list(str) :return: The tagged tokens :rtype: list(tuple(str, str)) """ tagger = load(_POS_TAGGER) return tagger.tag(tokens) def batch_pos_tag(sentences): """ Use NLTK's currently recommended part of speech tagger to tag the given list of sentences, each consisting of a list of tokens. """ tagger = load(_POS_TAGGER) return tagger.batch_tag(sentences) if __name__ == "__main__": import doctest doctest.testmod(optionflags=doctest.NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE)