Thai Word Tokenizers

This repository is a collection of almost all Thai tokenisers that are publicly available. Having this collection allows us to try each algorithm as ease via Docker.

Technically, each project (called vendor) has its own Docker image with a entry script and auxiliary scripts. These scripts bring a unified interface, allowing us to run those algorithms in the same way.

Vendors

Vendor	Alias	Available Methods	Container Profile
PyThaiNLP	pythainlp	newmm, longest
DeepCut	deepcut	deepcut
CutKum	cutkum	cutkum
Sertis	sertis	sertis
Thai Language Toolkit	tltk	mm, ngram, colloc
Smart Word Analysis for Thai (SWATH)	swath	max, long
Chrome's v8Breakiterator	chrome	v8breakiterator

Please see Usages for more details.

Setup

• Pull necessary Docker images. Please check Docker Hub for the avaliable images.

  $ docker pull pythainlp/word-tokenizers:<vendor-alias>
  

Usages

1. Put text files that you want to tokenise into ./data.
2. Run the following command ...

$ ./scripts/tokenise.sh <vendor-alias>-<method> <**filename**>

Please check Vendors section for vendors and methods included here.

Example

Let's say you want to tokenise text in ./data/example.text using PyThaiNLP's newmm algorithm. You can use the following command:

$ cat ./data/example.text
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$ ./scripts/tokenise.sh pythainlp:newmm example.text
# Please be aware that you don't need to have ./data in front of the filename.
# Command Output
Tokenising example.text using vendor=pythainlp and method=newmm
CMD: docker run -v /Users/heytitle/projects/tokenisers-for-thai/data:/data  thai-tokeniser:pythainlp newmm example.text
100%|██████████| 1/1 [00:00<00:00, 151.70it/s]
Tokenising /data/example.text with newmm
Tokenised text is written to /data/example_tokenised-pythainlp-newmm.text

$ cat ./data/example_tokenised-pythainlp-newmm.text
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Development

Architecture

TBD.

Build a vendor's new Docker image

$ ./scripts/build <vendor>

Push a new Docker image to Docker Hub

$ ./scripts/push <vendor>

Acknowledgements

• This repository was initially done by Pattarawat Chormai, whiling interning at Dr. Attapol Thamrongrattanarit's NLP Lab, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.