Python version of Ruby script to preprocess tweets for use in GloVe featurization http://nlp.stanford.edu/projects/glove/

preprocess-twitter.py

"""
preprocess-twitter.py

python preprocess-twitter.py "Some random text with #hashtags, @mentions and http://t.co/kdjfkdjf (links). :)"

Script for preprocessing tweets by Romain Paulus
with small modifications by Jeffrey Pennington
with translation to Python by Motoki Wu

Translation of Ruby script to create features for GloVe vectors for Twitter data.
http://nlp.stanford.edu/projects/glove/preprocess-twitter.rb
"""

import sys
import re

FLAGS = re.MULTILINE | re.DOTALL

def hashtag(text):
    text = text.group()
    hashtag_body = text[1:]
    # Split hashtags on uppercase letters
    if hashtag_body.isupper():
        result = "<hashtag> {} <allcaps>".format(hashtag_body.lower())
    else:
        result = " ".join(["<hashtag>"] + re.split(r"(?=[A-Z])", hashtag_body, flags=FLAGS))
    return result

def allcaps(text):
    text = text.group()
    return text.lower() + " <allcaps>"


def tokenize(text):
    # Different regex parts for smiley faces
    eyes = r"[8:=;]"
    nose = r"['`\-]?"

    # function so code less repetitive
    def re_sub(pattern, repl):
        return re.sub(pattern, repl, text, flags=FLAGS)

    text = re_sub(r"https?:\/\/\S+\b|www\.(\w+\.)+\S*", "<url>")
    text = re_sub(r"@\w+", "<user>")
    text = re_sub(r"{}{}[)dD]+|[)dD]+{}{}".format(eyes, nose, nose, eyes), "<smile>")
    text = re_sub(r"{}{}p+".format(eyes, nose), "<lolface>")
    text = re_sub(r"{}{}\(+|\)+{}{}".format(eyes, nose, nose, eyes), "<sadface>")
    text = re_sub(r"{}{}[\/|l*]".format(eyes, nose), "<neutralface>")
    text = re_sub(r"<3","<heart>")
    text = re_sub(r"[-+]?[.\d]*[\d]+[:,.\d]*", "<number>")
    text = re_sub(r"#\S+", hashtag)
    # Mark punctuation repetitions (eg. "!!!" => "! <REPEAT>")
    text = re_sub(r"([!?.]){2,}", r"\1 <repeat>")
    # Mark elongated words (eg. "wayyyy" => "way <ELONG>")
    text = re_sub(r"\b(\S*?)(.)\2{2,}\b", r"\1\2 <elong>")
    # Force splitting words appended with slashes (once we tokenized the URLs, of course)
    text = re_sub(r"/"," / ")

    ## -- I just don't understand why the Ruby script adds <allcaps> to everything so I limited the selection.
    # text = re_sub(r"([^a-z0-9()<>'`\-]){2,}", allcaps)
    text = re_sub(r"([A-Z]){2,}", allcaps)

    return text.lower()


if __name__ == '__main__':
    _, text = sys.argv
    if text == "test":
        text = "I TEST alllll kinds of #hashtags and #HASHTAGS, @mentions and 3000 (http://t.co/dkfjkdf). w/ <3 :) haha!!!!!"
    tokens = tokenize(text)
    print tokens