Cahoots 0.5.0

A Text Comprehension Engine in Python

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What is Cahoots?

Cahoots is software that attempts to categorize snippets of text into one of several categories. It runs a series of parsers, and returns a list of potential datatypes and interpretations with confidence values. In short, it attempts to “comprehend” the snippet you provide.

Its ideal use is within a daemon or service with a long life/execution time. It can also be run as a standalone Cahoots server (detailed here).

What is Cahoots NOT?

Cahoots is not meant for diagramming and mining large sets of text. While a text mining engine could utilize Cahoots in order to target specific snippets that it mined out of a large set of text, Cahoots is not meant to mine text.

Cahoots is not software that you would integrate into a non-daemon web app that would bootstrap and instantiate it on every page view. The bootstrap process can be somewhat intensive and should only run once (during an application’s launch process).

Installation

sudo pip install cahoots

Basic Module Usage

>>> from cahoots.parser import CahootsParser
>>> cahoots = CahootsParser(bootstrap=True)
>>> results = cahoots.parse('http://www.google.com/')
>>> results
{
    'date': '2015-03-22T23:47:36.340187',
    'query': 'http://www.google.com/',
    'top': <cahoots.result.ParseResult object>,
    'results': {
        'count': 1,
        'matches': [
            <cahoots.result.ParseResult object>
        ],
        'types': [
            "URI"
        ]
    },
    'execution_seconds': 0.006306886672973633
}

Basic Server Usage

$ cahootserver --help

Cahoots Server Help:

    -h, --help
        Show this help

    -p [port], --port [port]
        Set the port the server should listen on

    -d, --debug
        Run the server in debug mode (errors displayed, debug output)

$ sudo cahootserver --port 80 --debug
 * 00:38:18 04/04/15 CDT * Bootstrapping AddressParser
 * 00:38:18 04/04/15 CDT * Bootstrapping CoordinateParser
 * 00:38:18 04/04/15 CDT * Bootstrapping DateParser
 * 00:38:18 04/04/15 CDT * Bootstrapping EmailParser
 * 00:38:18 04/04/15 CDT * Bootstrapping LandmarkParser
 * 00:38:18 04/04/15 CDT * Bootstrapping MeasurementParser
 * 00:53:19 04/05/15 CDT * Bootstrapping NameParser
 * 00:38:18 04/04/15 CDT * Bootstrapping PostalCodeParser
 * 00:38:18 04/04/15 CDT * Bootstrapping ProgrammingParser
 * Running on http://0.0.0.0:80/ (Press CTRL+C to quit)
 * Restarting with reloader
 * 00:38:18 04/04/15 CDT * Bootstrapping AddressParser
 * 00:38:18 04/04/15 CDT * Bootstrapping CoordinateParser
 * 00:38:18 04/04/15 CDT * Bootstrapping DateParser
 * 00:38:18 04/04/15 CDT * Bootstrapping EmailParser
 * 00:38:18 04/04/15 CDT * Bootstrapping LandmarkParser
 * 00:38:18 04/04/15 CDT * Bootstrapping MeasurementParser
 * 00:53:19 04/05/15 CDT * Bootstrapping NameParser
 * 00:38:18 04/04/15 CDT * Bootstrapping PostalCodeParser
 * 00:38:18 04/04/15 CDT * Bootstrapping ProgrammingParser
# CTRL+C pressed

$ sudo cahootserver --port 80
 * Running on http://0.0.0.0:80/ (Press CTRL+C to quit)

Documentation

What Is Cahoots? What Is Cahoots NOT? »

Requirements and Dependencies »

Development Environment Setup »

Cahoots Server Setup »

Using Cahoots In Your Application »

Demo of Cahoots Web Server »

API Documentation »

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2012-2015 Serenity Software, LLC

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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SOFTWARE.

Cahoots integrates location data provided by GeoNames.

Cahoots uses many code samples for training a bayesian classifier. All code samples are from projects using either the BSD or MIT licenses. None of this code is executed at any time.