camel_tools.tokenizers.word

This module contains utilities for word-boundary tokenization.

Functions

camel_tools.tokenizers.word.simple_word_tokenize(sentence)

Tokenizes a sentence by splitting on whitespace and seperating punctuation. The resulting tokens are either alpha-numeric words or single punctuation/symbol characters. This function is language agnostic and splits all characters marked as punctuation or symbols in the Unicode specification. For example, tokenizing 'Hello,    world!!!' would yield ['Hello', ',', 'world', '!', '!', '!'].

Parameters:sentence (str) – Sentence to tokenize. Returns:The list of tokens. Return type:list of str