lextract.py
A script to automate (pre-) processing of the xml corpus for the course "Praxis der DH". Features include:
- whitespace fixes
- removal of tags
- tokenization (save as reference txt or inside of xml)
- stemming
- extraction of document body as plain text
Installation
Just download this script. Then install its dependencies nltk and lxml. You can install these libraries via pip.
pip install lxml
pip install nltk
Afterwards download the german language data for nltk to a folder 'nltk_data/' in the directory, where lextract.py resides.
Basic Usage
This script assumes that you have language data in the directory ./nltk_data/ and your source files a directory ./source/. You can start it on the console like this:
python3 lextract.py
Most directories used can be specified via parameters. View more detailed usage notes by specifying the --help parameter:
python3 lextract.py --help
Let's say, you have your source xml files in the directory ~/xml. You want to fix erroneous whitespace, remove note tags and write the files' content as plaintext into the directory ~/plaintext. You can achieve this by using
python3 lextract.py ~/xml -f -n --plain-dir ~/plaintext