talisman
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Straightforward fuzzy matching, information retrieval and NLP building blocks for JavaScript.
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Talisman
Talisman is a JavaScript library collecting algorithms, functions and various building blocks for fuzzy matching, information retrieval and natural language processing.
Installation
You can install Talisman through npm:
npm install talisman
Documentation
The library's full documentation can be found here.
Bibliography
An extensive bibliography of the methods & functions implemented by the library can be found here.
Goals
- :package: Modular: the library is completely modular. This means that if you only need to compute a
levenshtein
distance, you will only load the relevant code. - :bulb: Straightforward & simple: just want to compute a Jaccard index? No need to instantiate a class and use two methods to pass options and then finally succeed in getting the index. Just apply the
jaccard
function and get going. - :dango: Consistent API: the library's API is fully consistent and one should not struggle to understand how to apply two different distance metrics.
- :postal_horn: Functional: except for cases where classes might be useful (clustering notably), Talisman only uses functions, consumes raw data and order functions' arguments to make partial application & currying etc. as easy as possible.
- :zap: Performant: the library should be as performant as possible for a high-level programming language library.
- :globe_with_meridians: Cross-platform: the library is cross-platform and can be used both with Node.js and in the browser.
How to cite
Talisman has been published as a paper on the Journal Of Open Source Software (JOSS).
Contribution
Contributions are of course welcome :)
Be sure to lint & pass the unit tests before submitting your pull request.
# Cloning the repo
git clone [email protected]:Yomguithereal/talisman.git
cd talisman
# Installing the deps
npm install
# Running the tests
npm test
# Linting the code
npm run lint
License
This project is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.