nlup 0.5

nlup contains some base libraries I use in natural language understanding projects. Some highlights:

• confusion.py: classifier evaluation objects

• decorators.py: clever decorators for various purposes

• jsonable.py: a mix-in which allows the state of most objects to be serialized to (and deserialized from) compressed JSON

• perceptron.py: perceptron-like classifiers (binary and multiclass), including some forms of structured prediction; someday I will sit down and aggressively optimize this

• reader.py: classes and readers for tagged and dependency-parsed data

• timer.py: a with-block that logs time elapsed

All have been tested on CPython 3.4.1 and PyPy 3.2.5 (PyPy version 2.3.1). They will not work on Python 2 without modification.

Some projects using nlup:

• [Detector Morse](http://github.com/cslu-nlp/detectormorse): simple sentence boundary detection

• [Perceptronix Point Never](http://github.com/cslu-nlp/PerceptronixPointNever): simple part of speech tagging

• [Where’s Yr Head At](http://github.com/cslu-nlp/WheresYrHeadAt): simple transition-based dependency parsing