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Maintainers needed for language extensions
Help free TextBlob from Anglocentrism by contributing a language extension!
For instructions on how to do so, check out the development docs: http://textblob.readthedocs.org/en/dev/contributing.html#language-extensions
I've begun textblob-fr, but it would be nice if it had another maintainer (preferably one who knows French and/or has experience with NLP in French). For now, you can use textblob-fr as a template for other language extensions.
If you write more on what this would involve, I'd be interested in handling the Turkish extensions.
A tutorial on how to do this would be great. This is all the guidance we have right now (from the link above): "The process for developing language extensions is the same as developing model extensions. Create your part-of-speech taggers, tokenizers, parsers, etc. in the language of your choice."
@ibrahimsharaf Excellent! AFAIK there is no Arabic extension for TextBlob.
I recommend checking out textblob-de and textblob-fr to see what an extension would look like.
Hi @sloria I contacted @ibrahimsharaf and we will work together on the arabic extension. I already wrote some updates on a local repo. Would it be better if the ar extension has a separate repo like fr and de or made internally like the en?
@adhaamehab It should be a separate repo/package so that it can be released independently of TextBlob's release schedule.
I’d also like to point out the SCOWL project which could be used to generate the en-spelling.txt file instead of maintaining one as part of this project. Similar dictionaries exist for other languages over at the aspell project.
