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Author: Rob Speer

## Installation

wordfreq requires Python 3 and depends on a few other Python modules (msgpack-python, langcodes, and ftfy). You can install it and its dependencies in the usual way, either by getting it from pip:

pip3 install wordfreq

or by getting the repository and running its setup.py:

python3 setup.py install

To handle word frequency lookups in Japanese, you need to additionally install mecab-python3, which itself depends on libmecab-dev. These commands will install them on Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install mecab-ipadic-utf8 libmecab-dev pip3 install mecab-python3

## Tokenization

wordfreq uses the Python package regex, which is a more advanced implementation of regular expressions than the standard library, to separate text into tokens that can be counted consistently. regex produces tokens that follow the recommendations in [Unicode Annex #29, Text Segmentation][uax29].

There are language-specific exceptions:

  • In Arabic, it additionally normalizes ligatures and removes combining marks.

  • In Japanese, instead of using the regex library, it uses the external library mecab-python3. This is an optional dependency of wordfreq, and compiling it requires the libmecab-dev system package to be installed.

  • It does not yet attempt to tokenize Chinese ideograms.

[uax29]: http://unicode.org/reports/tr29/

## License

wordfreq is freely redistributable under the MIT license (see MIT-LICENSE.txt), and it includes data files that may be redistributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

wordfreq contains data extracted from Google Books Ngrams (http://books.google.com/ngrams) and Google Books Syntactic Ngrams (http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/books/syntactic-ngrams/index.html). The terms of use of this data are:

Ngram Viewer graphs and data may be freely used for any purpose, although acknowledgement of Google Books Ngram Viewer as the source, and inclusion of a link to http://books.google.com/ngrams, would be appreciated.

It also contains data derived from the following Creative Commons-licensed sources:

Some additional data was collected by a custom application that watches the streaming Twitter API, in accordance with Twitter’s Developer Agreement & Policy. This software gives statistics about words that are commonly used on Twitter; it does not display or republish any Twitter content.

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