SegmentRuby

SegmentRuby is a module for segmenting (English) text based on various language models.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'segment_ruby'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install segment_ruby

Usage

require 'segment_ruby'
t = SegmentRuby::Analyzer.new(:twitter)
t.segment("theboywholived")
=> ["the", "boy", "who", "lived"]

Models include:

• :norvig: based on Google web data
• :google_books: based on Google books data
• :anchor: based on Web anchor text
• :twitter: based on Twitter data
• :small: smaller version of the Google books data

The default model is small. Use it if is seems to work for you.

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/willf/segment_ruby.