Happier Fun Tokenizer

This code implements a basic, Twitter-aware tokenizer. Originally developed by Christopher Potts (Happy Fun Tokenizer) and updated by H. Andrew Schwartz. Shared with Christopher's permission.

Usage

from happierfuntokenizing.happierfuntokenizing import Tokenizer

tokenizer = Tokenizer()

message = """OMG!!!! :) I looooooove this tokenizer lololol"""
tokens = tokenizer.tokenize(message)
print(tokens)
['omg', '!', '!', '!', '!', ':)', 'i', 'looooooove', 'this', 'tokenizer', 'lololol']

message = """OMG!!!! :) I looooooove this tokenizer LoLoLoLoLooOOOOL"""
tokenizer = Tokenizer(preserve_case=True)
tokens = tokenizer.tokenize(message)
print(tokens)
['OMG', '!', '!', '!', '!', ':)', 'I', 'looooooove', 'this', 'tokenizer', 'LoLoLoLoLooOOOOL']

Installation

This is available through pip

pip install happierfuntokenizing

If you do not have sudo privileges you can use the --user flag

pip install --user happierfuntokenizing

Requirements

This uses Python 2.7. Package dependencies include re and htmlentitydefs.

License

Licensed under a GNU General Public License v3 (GPLv3)

Background

Adapted by the World Well-Being Project based out of the University of Pennsylvania and Stony Brook University. Originally developed by Christopher Potts.