en-lexicon

English Lexicon

Extensible English language lexicon for POS tagging with Emojis and around 110K words

Installation

npm install en-lexicon --save

Usage

 
const lexicon = require("en-lexicon");
 
console.log(lexicon.lexicon.faraway);
// "JJ"
 
// multiple POS tags are separated by "|"
console.log(lexicon.lexicon.acquired);
// "VBN|JJ|VBD"
 

Extending

One of the main reason that I had to write my own lexicon module is that I needed it to be extensible.

To extend the lexion with medical terms for example:

const lexicon = require("en-lexicon");
lexicon.extend({
    lactate:"VB",
    serum:"NN"
});
 
// Now that you've extended the lexicon with your own terms
// you won't only get the terms you entered
// The lexicon will (try) to be smart and
// apply some inflections on those terms
 
// the term you entered
console.log(lexicon.lexicon.lactate);
// "VB"
console.log(lexicon.lexicon.lactated);
// "VBD|VBN"
console.log(lexicon.lexicon.lactating);
// "VBG"
 

Credits

I've used Eric Brill's lexicon as starting point for this project, manually corrected some cases, and expanded it using various corpora, this one and this one for example.

License

License: The MIT License (MIT) - Copyright (c) 2017 Alex Corvi