IUExtract 1.0.1

Rule-based Idea Unit segmentation algorithm for the English language.

IUExtract

Rule-based Idea Unit segmentation algorithm for the English language.

Installation

First of all, you need to install the dependencies:

pip install spacy
python -m spacy download en_core_web_lg

To install the package with the command line tool install pipx and run the following command:

pipx install iuextract --python 3.9

If you only wish to use the package in your python projects you can install without executable via

pip install iuextract

Command Line Interface (CLI) Usage

Once installed via pipx, you can run

iuextract -i input_file.txt 

to segment file.txt into Idea Units. The segmented file will be printed on the console as standard output. You can specify an output file with the -o parameter.

iuextract -i input_file.txt -o output_file.txt

For more options you can call the help argument.

iuextract -h