https://github.com/scrapinghub/python-crfsuite

A python binding for crfsuite
https://github.com/scrapinghub/python-crfsuite

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A python binding for crfsuite

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/scrapinghub/python-crfsuite
• Owner: scrapinghub
• License: mit
• Created: 2014-04-13T07:26:21.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-12-19T16:14:53.000Z (11 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-16T18:22:01.021Z (7 months ago)
• Topics: crf, crfsuite, data-science
• Language: Python
• Size: 1010 KB
• Stars: 766
• Watchers: 32
• Forks: 221
• Open Issues: 52
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.rst
  • Changelog: CHANGES.rst
  • License: LICENSE.txt

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python-crfsuite

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python-crfsuite is a python binding to CRFsuite_.

Installation

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Using ``pip``::

    pip install python-crfsuite

Using ``conda``::

    conda install -c conda-forge python-crfsuite

Usage

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See docs_ and an example_.

.. _docs: http://python-crfsuite.rtfd.org/

.. _example: https://github.com/scrapinghub/python-crfsuite/blob/master/examples/CoNLL%202002.ipynb

See Also

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sklearn-crfsuite_ is a python-crfsuite wrapper which provides

API similar to scikit-learn.

.. _sklearn-crfsuite: https://github.com/TeamHG-Memex/sklearn-crfsuite

Contributing

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* Source code: https://github.com/scrapinghub/python-crfsuite

* Issue tracker: https://github.com/scrapinghub/python-crfsuite/issues

Feel free to submit ideas, bugs reports, pull requests or regular patches.

Please don't commit generated cpp files in the same commit as other files.

.. _Cython: http://cython.org/

.. _tox: http://tox.testrun.org

Authors and Contributors

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Original authors are Terry Peng  and

Mikhail Korobov . Many other people contributed;

some of them can be found at github Contributors_ page.

Bundled CRFSuite_ C/C++ library is by Naoaki Okazaki & contributors.

.. _Contributors: https://github.com/scrapinghub/python-crfsuite/graphs/contributors

License

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python-crfsuite is licensed under MIT license.

CRFsuite_ library is licensed under BSD license.

.. _CRFsuite: https://github.com/chokkan/crfsuite

Alternatives

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* https://github.com/chokkan/crfsuite/tree/master/swig/python - official

  Python wrapper, exposes C++ API using SWIG.

* https://github.com/jakevdp/pyCRFsuite - uses C API instead of C++ API;

  allows to use scipy sparse matrices as an input. At the time of writing

  it is unmaintained.

* https://github.com/bosondata/crfsuite-rs - uses a Rust wrapper with CFFI instead of C++ API;

  allows to tag with GIL released for better performance.

This package (python-crfsuite) wraps CRFsuite C++ API using Cython.

It is faster than official SWIG wrapper and has a simpler codebase than

a more advanced pyCRFsuite. python-crfsuite works in Python 2 and Python 3,

doesn't have external dependencies (CRFsuite is bundled, numpy/scipy stack

is not needed) and workarounds some of the issues with C++ CRFsuite library.