Ve

A linguistic framework for anyone. No degree required.

Read all about it on kimtaro.github.com/ve.

Getting Started

Ve relies on the FreeLing and MeCab language parsers. You must install FreeLing for English or MeCab for Japanese or both.

Installation instructions for FreeLing can be found here.

Installation instruction for MeCab can be found here.

Installing with HomeBrew

If you are using OSX, you can easily install FreeLing and MeCab with HomeBrew.

$ brew install freeling
$ brew install mecab-ipadic

Building the Gem

You can build the Ve gem with the following:

$ gem build ve.gemspec

To install the newly built gem:

$ gem install ve-<version>.gem

Be sure to substitute <version> with the version of the newly built gem, for example ve-0.0.3.gem.

Ruby

require 've'
words = Ve.in(:en).words('I like melons.')
# => [#<Ve::Word:0x8ee00cc @word="I", @lemma="i", @part_of_speech=Ve::PartOfSpeech::Pronoun, @tokens=[{:raw=>"I i PRP 1", :type=>:parsed, :literal=>"I", :lemma=>"i", :pos=>"PRP", :accuracy=>"1", :characters=>0..0}], @extra={:grammar=>:personal}, @info={}>, #<Ve::Word:0x8edff28 @word="like", @lemma="like", @part_of_speech=Ve::PartOfSpeech::Preposition, @tokens=[{:raw=>"like like IN 0.815649", :type=>:parsed, :literal=>"like", :lemma=>"like", :pos=>"IN", :accuracy=>"0.815649", :characters=>2..5}], @extra={:grammar=>nil}, @info={}>, #<Ve::Word:0x8edfe24 @word="melons", @lemma="melon", @part_of_speech=Ve::PartOfSpeech::Noun, @tokens=[{:raw=>"melons melon NNS 1", :type=>:parsed, :literal=>"melons", :lemma=>"melon", :pos=>"NNS", :accuracy=>"1", :characters=>7..12}], @extra={:grammar=>:plural}, @info={}>, #<Ve::Word:0x8edfcbc @word=".", @lemma=".", @part_of_speech=Ve::PartOfSpeech::Symbol, @tokens=[{:raw=>". . Fp 1", :type=>:parsed, :literal=>".", :lemma=>".", :pos=>"Fp", :accuracy=>"1", :characters=>13..13}], @extra={:grammar=>nil}, @info={}>]

words.collect(&:lemma) # => ["i", "like", "melon", "."]
words.collect(&:part_of_speec) # => [Ve::PartOfSpeech::Pronoun, Ve::PartOfSpeech::Preposition, Ve::PartOfSpeech::Noun, Ve::PartOfSpeech::Symbol]

Javascript

<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="ve.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
  new Ve('ja').words('ビールがおいしかった', function(words) {
    // [{"_class":"Word","word":"ビール","lemma":"ビール","part_of_speech":"noun","tokens":[{"raw":"ビール\t名詞,一般,*,*,*,*,ビール,ビール,ビール","type":"parsed","literal":"ビール","pos":"名詞","pos2":"一般","pos3":"*","pos4":"*","inflection_type":"*","inflection_form":"*","lemma":"ビール","reading":"ビール","hatsuon":"ビール","characters":"0..2"}],"extra":{"reading":"ビール","transcription":"ビール","grammar":null},"info":{"reading_script":"kata","transcription_script":"kata"}},{"_class":"Word","word":"が","lemma":"が","part_of_speech":"postposition","tokens":[{"raw":"が\t助詞,格助詞,一般,*,*,*,が,ガ,ガ","type":"parsed","literal":"が","pos":"助詞","pos2":"格助詞","pos3":"一般","pos4":"*","inflection_type":"*","inflection_form":"*","lemma":"が","reading":"ガ","hatsuon":"ガ","characters":"3..3"}],"extra":{"reading":"ガ","transcription":"ガ","grammar":null},"info":{"reading_script":"kata","transcription_script":"kata"}},{"_class":"Word","word":"おいしい","lemma":"おいしい","part_of_speech":"adjective","tokens":[{"raw":"おいしい\t形容詞,自立,*,*,形容詞・イ段,基本形,おいしい,オイシイ,オイシイ","type":"parsed","literal":"おいしい","pos":"形容詞","pos2":"自立","pos3":"*","pos4":"*","inflection_type":"形容詞・イ段","inflection_form":"基本形","lemma":"おいしい","reading":"オイシイ","hatsuon":"オイシイ","characters":"4..7"}],"extra":{"reading":"オイシイ","transcription":"オイシイ","grammar":null},"info":{"reading_script":"kata","transcription_script":"kata"}}]

    for ( i in words ) {
      var word = words[i];
      console.log(word.lemma + "/" + word.part_of_speech)
    }

    // ビール/noun
    // が/postposition
    // おいしい/adjective
  });
</script>

.Net 5

dotnet add package luojunyuan.Ve.DotNet --version 5.0.0
Install-Package luojunyuan.Ve.DotNet -Version 5.0.0

var tagger = MeCabTagger.Create();

foreach (var word in tagger.ParseToNodes("ビールがおいしかった").ParseVeWords())
{
    Console.WriteLine($"{word.PartOfSpeech} {word.Lemma}");
}
// 名詞 ビール
// 助詞 が
// 形容詞 おいしい

Dart

Scala

Structure

Ve::LocalInterface - Main interface that gives access to functionality in providers that exist locally
Ve::XInterface - Allows for different ways of accessing Ve providers. Locally, through an HTTP API, binary protocol or whatever
Ve::Manager - Keeps track of providers and what they can do
Ve::Provider::X - Talks to the underlying parser
Ve::Parse::X - Takes the output from the Provider and turns it into functions the end user can use

Todo

Expose more through the sinatra server
Alias lemma to base, so people don't need to know what lemmas are
Break out into separate projects for each component. Ve-ruby, Ve-js.
Better UTF-8 handling for Freeling
See all the TODO's in the code

License

This is under the MIT license.

Kimtaro/ve

Kimtaro

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