textblob-de 0.1.3

German language support for TextBlob.

German language support for TextBlob.

This python package is being developed as a TextBlob Language Extension. See Extension Guidelines for details.

Features

• Part-of-speech tagging (PatternTagger)

• Supports Python 2 and 3

• See working features overview for details

Installing/Upgrading

$ pip install -U textblob-de

Or the latest development release:

$ pip install -U git+https://github.com/markuskiller/textblob-de.git@dev

Note

TextBlob will be installed and updated automatically by running the above commands.

Usage

>>> from textblob import TextBlob
>>> from textblob_de import PatternTagger
>>> text = "Das ist ein schönes Auto."
>>> blob = TextBlob(text, pos_tagger=PatternTagger())
>>> blob.tags
[('Das', 'DT'), ('ist', 'VB'), ('ein', 'DT'), ('schönes', 'JJ'), ('Auto', 'NN')]

Note

Make sure that you use unicode strings on Python2 if your input contains non-ascii characters (e.g. word = u"schönes")

Requirements

• Python >= 2.6 or >= 3.3

TODO

• Fix handling of sentence final punctuation

• German Tokenization (adapt English PatternTokenizer)

• NLTK tagging

• Parsing

• Sentiment analysis (no subjectivity lexicon readily available in pattern-de)

License

MIT licensed. See the bundled LICENSE file for more details.

Changelog

0.1.3 (09/07/2014)

• First release on PyPI

0.1.0 - 0.1.2 (09/07/2014)

• First release on github

• A number of experimental releases for testing purposes

• Adapted version badges, tests & travis-ci config

• Code adapted from sample extension textblob-fr

• Language specific linguistic resources copied from pattern-de