Maintainers needed for language extensions

[sloria]

Help free TextBlob from Anglocentrism by contributing a language extension!

For instructions on how to do so, check out the development docs: http://textblob.readthedocs.org/en/dev/contributing.html#language-extensions

I've begun textblob-fr, but it would be nice if it had another maintainer (preferably one who knows French and/or has experience with NLP in French). For now, you can use textblob-fr as a template for other language extensions.

[makmanalp]

If you write more on what this would involve, I'd be interested in handling the Turkish extensions.

[sloria]

That would be excellent! I've added more info in the issue description

[EmilStenstrom]

A tutorial on how to do this would be great. This is all the guidance we have right now (from the link above): "The process for developing language extensions is the same as developing model extensions. Create your part-of-speech taggers, tokenizers, parsers, etc. in the language of your choice."

[ibrahimsharaf]

Hi @sloria, I am willing to help on Arabic (if needed).

[sloria]

@ibrahimsharaf Excellent! AFAIK there is no Arabic extension for TextBlob.

I recommend checking out textblob-de and textblob-fr to see what an extension would look like.

[adhaamehab]

Hi @sloria
I contacted @ibrahimsharaf and we will work together on the arabic extension.
I already wrote some updates on a local repo.
Would it be better if the ar extension has a separate repo like fr and de or made internally like the en?

[sloria]

@adhaamehab It should be a separate repo/package so that it can be released independently of TextBlob's release schedule.

[jenstroeger]

I’d also like to point out the SCOWL project which could be used to generate the en-spelling.txt file instead of maintaining one as part of this project. Similar dictionaries exist for other languages over at the aspell project.