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Practical Natural Language Processing done in Ruby.

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Useful resources for text processing in Ruby

This curated list comprises awesome resources, libraries, information sources about computational processing of texts in human languages with Ruby. That field is often referred to as NLP, Computational Linguistics, HLT (Human Language Technology) and can be brought in conjunction with Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval and other related disciplines.

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Contents

NLP Pipeline Subtasks

Pipeline Generation

Multipurpose Engines

  • Open NLP - Ruby Bindings for the OpenNLP Toolkit.
  • Stanford Core NLP - Ruby Bindings for the Stanford CoreNLP tools.
  • Treat - Natural Language Processing framework for Ruby.

Segmentation

Tools for Tokenization, Word and Sentence Boundary Detection and Disambiguation.

  • tokenizer - Simple multilingual tokenizer. [tutorial]
  • pragmatic_tokenizer - Multilingual tokenizer to split a string into tokens.
  • nlp-pure - Natural language processing algorithms implemented in pure Ruby with minimal dependencies.
  • textoken - Simple and customizable text tokenization library.
  • pragmatic_segmenter - Word Boundary Disambiguation with many cookies.
  • punkt-segmenter - Pure Ruby implementation of the Punkt Segmenter.
  • Tactful_Tokenizer - RegExp based tokenizer for different languages.
  • scapel - Sentence Boundary Disambiguation tool.

Lexical Processing

Stemming

Stemming is the term used in information retrieval to describe the process for reducing wordforms to some base representation. Stemming should be distinguished from Lemmatization since stems are not necessarily have linguistic motivation.

  • ruby-stemmer - Ruby-Stemmer exposes the SnowBall API to Ruby.
  • uea-stemmer - Conservative stemmer for search and indexing.

Lemmatization

Lemmatization is considered a process of finding a base form of a word. Lemmas are often collected in dictionaries.

  • lemmatizer - WordNet based Lemmatizer for English texts.

Counting Types and Tokens

  • wc - Facilities to count word occurrences in a text.
  • word_count - Word counter for String and Hash objects.

Phrasal Level Processing

  • N-Gram - N-Gram generator.
  • ngram - Break words and phrases into ngrams.
  • raingrams - Flexible and general-purpose ngrams library written in pure Ruby.

Syntactic Processing

Constituency Parsing

Semantic Analysis

  • amatch - Set of five distance types between strings (including Levenshtein, Sellers, Jaro-Winkler, 'pair distance').
  • damerau-levenshtein - Calculates edit distance using the Damerau-Levenshtein algorithm.
  • FuzzyTools - In-memory TF/IDF fuzzy document finding with a fancy default tokenizer.
  • Going the Distance - Contains scripts that do various distance calculations.
  • hotwater - Fast Ruby FFI string edit distance algorithms.
  • levenshtein-ffi - Fast string edit distance computation, using the Damerau-Levenshtein algorithm.
  • TF-IDF - Term Frequency / Inverse Document Frequency in pure Ruby.
  • tf-idf-similarity - Calculate the similarity between texts using TF/IDF.

Pragmatical Analysis

High Level Tasks

Text Alignment

  • alignment - Alignment routines for bilingual texts (Gale-Church implementation).

Machine Translation

Dialog Systems

  • chatterbot - Straightforward ruby-based Twitter Bot Framework, using OAuth to authenticate.
  • Lita - Lita is a chat bot written in Ruby with persistent storage provided by Redis.

Sentiment Analysis

Date and Time Parsing

  • Chronic - Pure Ruby natural language date parser
  • Chronic Between - Simple Ruby natural language parser for date and time ranges.
  • Chronic Duration - Pure Ruby parser for elapsed time.
  • Kronic - Methods for parsing and formatting human readable dates.
  • Nickel - Extracts date, time, and message information from naturally worded text.
  • Tickle - Parser for recurring and repeating events.

Named Entity Recognition

  • ruby-ner - Named Entity Recognition with Stanford NER and Ruby.
  • ruby-nlp - Ruby Binding for Stanford Pos-Tagger and Name Entity Recognizer.

Text-to-Speech-to-Text

  • espeak-ruby - Small Ruby API for utilizing 'espeak' and 'lame' to create text-to-speech mp3 files.
  • Isabella - Voice-computing assistant built in Ruby.
  • tts - Text-to-Speech conversion using the Google translate service.
  • att_speech - Ruby wrapper over the AT&T Speech API for speech to text.
  • pocketsphinx-ruby - Pocketsphinx bindings.

Machine Learning Libraries

Machine Learining Algorithms in pure Ruby or written in other programming languages with appropriate bindings for Ruby.

  • rb-libsvm - Support Vector Machines with Ruby.
  • weka-jruby - JRuby bindings for Weka, different ML algorithms implemented through Weka.
  • decisiontree - Decision Tree ID3 Algorithm in pure Ruby.
  • rtimbl - Memory based learners from the Timbl framework.
  • classifier-reborn - General classifier module to allow Bayesian and other types of classifications.
  • Latent Dirichlet Allocation - Pure Ruby LDA implementation to automatically cluster documents into topics.
  • liblinear-ruby-swig - Ruby interface to LIBLINEAR (much more efficient than LIBSVM for text classification).
  • linnaeus - Redis-backed Bayesian classifier.
  • maxent_string_classifier - JRuby maximum entropy classifier for string data, based on the OpenNLP Maxent framework.
  • Naive-Bayes - Simple Naive Bayes classifier.
  • nbayes - Full-featured, Ruby implementation of Naive Bayes.
  • omnicat - Generalized rack framework for text classifications.
  • omnicat-bayes - Naive Bayes text classification implementation as an OmniCat classifier strategy.

Language Aware String Manipulation

Libraries for language aware string manipulation, i.e. search, pattern matching, case conversion, transcoding, regular expressions which need information about the underlying language.

  • FuzzyMatch - find a needle in a haystack based on string similarity and regular expression rules.
  • fuzzy-string-match - Fuzzy string matching library for Ruby.
  • active_support - RoR ActiveSupport gem has various string extensions that can handle case.
  • u - U extends Ruby’s Unicode support.
  • unicode - Unicode normalization library.
  • CommonRegexRuby - Find a lot of kinds of common information in a string.
  • regexp-examples - Generate strings that match a given regular expression.
  • verbal_expressions - Make difficult regular expressions easy.

Articles, Posts, Talks, and Presentations

Books

  • Miller, Rob. Text Processing with Ruby: Extract Value from the Data That Surrounds You. Pragmatic Programmers, 2015. [link]
  • Watson, Mark. Scripting Intelligence: Web 3.0 Information Gathering and Processing. APRESS, 2010. [link]
  • Watson, Mark. Practical Semantic Web and Linked Data Applications. Lulu: 2010. [link]

Community

Related Resources

Contributing

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