nltk.tokenize.TabTokenizer

class nltk.tokenize.TabTokenizer[source]

Bases: StringTokenizer

Tokenize a string use the tab character as a delimiter, the same as s.split('\t').

>>> from nltk.tokenize import TabTokenizer
>>> TabTokenizer().tokenize('a\tb c\n\t d')
['a', 'b c\n', ' d']
span_tokenize(s)[source]

Identify the tokens using integer offsets (start_i, end_i), where s[start_i:end_i] is the corresponding token.

Return type

Iterator[Tuple[int, int]]

span_tokenize_sents(strings: List[str]) Iterator[List[Tuple[int, int]]][source]

Apply self.span_tokenize() to each element of strings. I.e.:

return [self.span_tokenize(s) for s in strings]

Yield

List[Tuple[int, int]]

Parameters

strings (List[str]) –

Return type

Iterator[List[Tuple[int, int]]]

tokenize(s)[source]

Return a tokenized copy of s.

Return type

List[str]

tokenize_sents(strings: List[str]) List[List[str]][source]

Apply self.tokenize() to each element of strings. I.e.:

return [self.tokenize(s) for s in strings]

Return type

List[List[str]]

Parameters

strings (List[str]) –