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python-crfsuite

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python-crfsuite is a python binding to CRFsuite.

Installation

Using pip:

pip install python-crfsuite

Using conda:

conda install -c conda-forge python-crfsuite

Usage

See docs and an example.

See Also

sklearn-crfsuite is a python-crfsuite wrapper which provides API similar to scikit-learn.

Contributing

Feel free to submit ideas, bugs reports, pull requests or regular patches.

Please don't commit generated cpp files in the same commit as other files.

Authors and Contributors

Original authors are Terry Peng <[email protected]> and Mikhail Korobov <[email protected]>. Many other people contributed; some of them can be found at github Contributors page.

Bundled CRFSuite C/C++ library is by Naoaki Okazaki & contributors.

License

python-crfsuite is licensed under MIT license. CRFsuite library is licensed under BSD license.

Alternatives

This package (python-crfsuite) wraps CRFsuite C++ API using Cython. It is faster than official SWIG wrapper and has a simpler codebase than a more advanced pyCRFsuite. python-crfsuite works in Python 2 and Python 3, doesn't have external dependencies (CRFsuite is bundled, numpy/scipy stack is not needed) and workarounds some of the issues with C++ CRFsuite library.