woffle  

woffle aims to be an opinionated (but sensible) project template for the majority of your language processing tasks.

What this means is that by default it prefers some tools over others. However, we have tried to make it as easy as possible for you to quickly add your own code in to perform additional functionality whilst still fitting in and communicating well with all of the other pieces.

Working on projects such as pyGrams, pelican cove and optimus it became clear that our NLP projects generally consist of up to 4 tasks.

1. Parsing Data tends to need cleaning before we can really do a lot of NLP stuff with it.
2. Embedding Because computers are really bad at understanding language we come pre-packed with various ways of converting all of that text into numbers so that your computer can do stuff. This can sometimes seem like a contrivance where we consider sentiment scores for text as an 'embedding' but all we mean is "generating a numeric representation for text" and this hopefully follows.
3. Clustering Whether grouping sentences with like sentiment, generating hierarchical classifications of text or looking at some density based clustering mechanisms it often helps to collect things that are similar to understand what is going on.
4. Selection Oftentimes, such as when generating a hierarchical classification of things, we want to replace a cluster of text with a single entity in some way.

Now I'll be able to do these faster and with less code using woffle. If you wish to implement your task using woffle then please see Getting Started.