Chana: An NLP toolkit for the Shipibo-Konibo language of Peru.

chana is a Python library of various NLP tools for the Shipibo-Konibo. Some of these tools can be reused on other peruvian indigenous and/or highly agglutinative languages. It is built on top of scikit-learn, python-crfsuite and distributed under MIT license.

Chana has various NLP tools such as:

• Lemmatizer.
• Part-of-Speech tagger.
• Named Entity annotation.
• Syllabificator.

Installation

Dependencies

Chana requires:

• Python (>= 3.4)
• NumPy (>= 1.13.1)
• Scikit-learn (>= 0.18.1)
• Python-crfsuite (>= 0.9.5)

User installation

If you already have a working installation of numpy, scikit-learn and python-crfsuite, the easiest way to install chana is using pip :

pip install chana

Help and Support

Important links

• Project website: http://chana.inf.pucp.edu.pe
• Official source code repo: https://github.com/iapucp/chana-library
• Download releases: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/chana
• HTML documentation (stable release): http://chana.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Communication

• Website: http://chana.inf.pucp.edu.pe
• Authors: Jose Pereira - jpereiran

Contact

For any question and feedback please contact:

• José Pereira Noriega (jpereira@pucp.edu.pe)
• Rodolfo Mercado Gonzales (rmercado@pucp.edu.pe)
• Arturo Oncevay Marcos (arturo.oncevay@pucp.edu.pe)
• Vivian Góngora Patrón (v.gongora@pucp.pe)

Acknowledgments

• Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP)
• Consejo Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Tecnológica (CONCYTEC)
• NVIDIA
• Amazon Web Services