nltk.RegexpTokenizer

class nltk.RegexpTokenizer(pattern, gaps=False, discard_empty=True, flags=56)[source]

A tokenizer that splits a string using a regular expression, which matches either the tokens or the separators between tokens.

>>> tokenizer = RegexpTokenizer('\w+|\$[\d\.]+|\S+')
Parameters:
  • pattern (str) – The pattern used to build this tokenizer. (This pattern must not contain capturing parentheses; Use non-capturing parentheses, e.g. (?:...), instead)
  • gaps (bool) – True if this tokenizer’s pattern should be used to find separators between tokens; False if this tokenizer’s pattern should be used to find the tokens themselves.
  • discard_empty (bool) – True if any empty tokens ‘’ generated by the tokenizer should be discarded. Empty tokens can only be generated if _gaps == True.
  • flags (int) – The regexp flags used to compile this tokenizer’s pattern. By default, the following flags are used: re.UNICODE | re.MULTILINE | re.DOTALL.

Methods

__init__(pattern[, gaps, discard_empty, flags])
span_tokenize(text)
span_tokenize_sents(strings) Apply self.span_tokenize() to each element of strings.
tokenize(text)
tokenize_sents(strings) Apply self.tokenize() to each element of strings.
unicode_repr()