irisa-text-normalizer

Text normalisation tools from IRISA lab ( https://github.com/glecorve/irisa-text-normalizer )

Synopsis

The tools provided here are split into 3 steps:

1. Tokenisation (adding blanks around punctation marks, dealing with special cases like URLs, etc.)
2. Generic normalisation (leading to homogeneous texts where (almost) information have been lost and where tags have been added for some entities)
3. Specific normalisation (projection of the generic texts into specific forms)

How to cite

@misc{lecorve2017normalizer,
  title={The IRISA Text Normalizer},
  author={Lecorv{\'e}, Gw{\'e}nol{\'e}},
  howpublished={\url{https://github.com/glecorve/irisa-text-normalizer}},
  year={2017}
}

Supported languages:

• English
• French

Commands

LANGUAGE="en" # (or "fr")

Tokenisation

perl bin/$LANGUAGE/basic-tokenizer.pl examples/$LANGUAGE/text.raw > examples/$LANGUAGE/text.tokenized.txt

Generic normalisation

perl bin/$LANGUAGE/start-generic-normalisation.pl examples/$LANGUAGE/text.tokenized > examples/$LANGUAGE/text.norm.step1
# <-- Here you may wish to run some extra tool -->
perl bin/$LANGUAGE/end-generic-normalisation.pl examples/$LANGUAGE/text.norm.step1.txt > examples/$LANGUAGE/text.norm.step2.txt

or simply:

bash bin/$LANGUAGE/generic-normalisation.sh text-normalisation/examples/$LANGUAGE/text.tokenized.txt

2 examples of specific normalisations

perl bin/$LANGUAGE/specific-normalisation.pl cfg/asr.cfg examples/$LANGUAGE/text.norm.step2 > examples/$LANGUAGE/text.asr.txt
perl bin/$LANGUAGE/specific-normalisation.pl cfg/tts.cfg examples/$LANGUAGE/text.norm.step2 > examples/$LANGUAGE/text.tts.txt

Create your own configuration for specific normalisation

perl bin/$LANGUAGE/specific-normalisation.pl -h