en-pos

A better English POS tagger written in JavaScript

Installation and usage

Install via NPM:

npm i --save en-pos

How to use

const Tag = require("en-pos").Tag;
var tags = new Tag(["this","is","my","sentence"])
.initial() // initial dictionary and pattern based tagging
.smooth() // further context based smoothing
.tags;
console.log(tags);
// ["DT","VBZ","PRP$","NN"]

Annotation Specification

Accuracy and performance

TL:DR;

• When smoothing is enabled: 96.43% accuracy (processing 132K tokens in 38 seconds)
• When smoothing is disabled: 94.4% accuracy (processing 132K tokens in 3 seconds)

As of 25 Jan 2017, this library scored 96.43% at the Penn Treebank test (0.3% away from being a state of the art tagger).

Being written in JavaScript, I think it's safe to say that this is the most accurate JavaScript POS tagger, since the only JS library I know of is pos-js which when I tested on the same treebank scored 87.8%, though it was faster than my implementation when smoothing is enabled.

However, if performance is what's you're after rather than accuracy, then you have the option to disable smoothing in this library and this will marginally increase performance making this library even faster than pos-js but with far better accuracy (94.4%).

Building from source and testing

• Build: tsc (requires typescript)
• Test: node test/test.ts

Credits

• This project is an optimization and (almost complete) re-writing of Compendium's POS tagger.
• Compendium's tagger itself was based on fasttag.
• Fasttag is based on Eric Brill's POS tagger.