preprocessor.py

import nltk

from nltk import WordNetLemmatizer

from src.preprocessing.word_prunner import WordPrunner


class Preprocessor:
    def __init__(self):
        self.words = {}
        self.lemmatiser = WordNetLemmatizer()
        self.prunner = WordPrunner()

    def read_file(self, path: str):
        with open(path, 'r') as file:
            line = " "
            while line:
                line = file.readline()
                tokens = self.prunner.prune(nltk.word_tokenize(line))
                for word in tokens:
                    self.add_word(word)

    def add_word(self, term: str):
        # change case to lower
        word = self.lemmatiser.lemmatize(term)
        # add to words
        if word not in self.words:
            self.words[word] = 0
        self.words[word] += 1

    def persist(self, path: str):
        with open(path, 'w') as file:
            json.dump(self.words, file)