A Python module for interfacing with the Treetagger by Helmut Schmid.

Copyright (C) 2016 Mirko Otto

For license information, see LICENSE.txt

• TreeTagger
• Python 3
• NLTK
• treetagger.py is for Python 3
• treetagger_python2.py is for old Python 2

Tested with Treetagger 3.2, Python 3.4 and NLTK 3.0.4

Before you install the treetagger-python package please ensure you have downloaded and installed the TreeTagger itself.

The TreeTagger is a copyrighted software by Helmut Schmid and IMS, please read the license agreement before you download the TreeTagger package and language models.

After the installation of the TreeTagger set the environment variable TREETAGGER_HOME to the installation directory of the TreeTagger.

export TREETAGGER_HOME='/path/to/your/TreeTagger/'

Tagging a sentence from Python:

from treetagger import TreeTagger
tt = TreeTagger(language='english')
tt.tag('What is the airspeed of an unladen swallow?')

The output is a list of [token, tag, lemma]:

[['What', 'WP', 'What'], 
['is', 'VBZ', 'be'], 
['the', 'DT', 'the'], 
['airspeed', 'NN', 'airspeed'], 
['of', 'IN', 'of'], 
['an', 'DT', 'an'], 
['unladen', 'JJ', '<unknown>'], 
['swallow', 'NN', 'swallow'], 
['?', 'SENT', '?']]

Tagging a german sentence from Python:

from treetagger import TreeTagger
tt = TreeTagger(language='german')
tt.tag('Das Haus hat einen großen hübschen Garten.')

The output is a list of [token, tag, lemma]:

[['Das', 'ART', 'die'], 
['Haus', 'NN', 'Haus'], 
['hat', 'VAFIN', 'haben'], 
['einen', 'ART', 'eine'], 
['großen', 'ADJA', 'groß'], 
['hübschen', 'ADJA', 'hübsch'], 
['Garten', 'NN', 'Garten'], 
['.', '$.', '.']]