b4msa.lang_dependency

class b4msa.lang_dependency.LangDependency(lang='spanish')

Defines a set of functions to change text using laguage dependent transformations, e.g., - Negation - Stemming - Stopwords

Parameters

lang (str) – Language spanish | english | italian | german

english_negation(text)

Standarizes negation sentences markers used: “not, no, never, nor, neither” “any” is only used with negative sentences.

load_stopwords(fileName)

Load stopwords from file

property neg_stopwords

Stop words skip to find a negation

negation(text)

Applies negation process to the given text

spanish_negation(text)

Standarizes negation sentences, nouns are also considering with the operator “sin” (without) Markers like ninguno, ningún, nadie are considered as another word.

stemming(text)

Applies the stemming process to text parameter

property stopwords

Stop words read from resources directory

exception b4msa.lang_dependency.LangDependencyError(message)

b4msa.lang_dependency.get_lang(l)

Convert language abbr to full names