Social Media Tokenizer: German

This application tokenizes German social media posts correctly handling the use of punctuation symbols within hashtags, emoticons, user mentions etc. Whilst originally designed for processing Tweets it can also handle text from other social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram that use similar conventions.

This pipeline is a cut down version of our German Named Entity Recognizer for Tweets.

Tweet
An annotation spanning a single Tweet
Token
The annotation that covers each individual word
kind
the type of token; word, punctuation, number etc.
length
the length, in characters, of the token
string
the text of the token
UserID
The username part of @user mentions, not including the leading @ sign
user
the username, not including the leading @ sign
Emoticon
Emoticons such as :-)
normalized
the normalized form of the emoticon, i.e. the value for both :) and :-) is :)
URL
Used to annotate any URL occuring within the tweet
string
the URL address
Hashtag
Hashtags, including the leading # character
1,200 free requests / day
Larger batches £0.80 / CPU hour

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Single documents

You can process up to 1,200 documents per day free of charge using the REST API, at an average rate of 2 documents/sec. Higher quotas are available for research users by arrangement, contact us for details.

The API endpoint for this pipeline is:

https://cloud-api.gate.ac.uk/process/german-tweet-tokenizer

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Batches of documents

You can process any amount of data with this pipeline on a pay-as-you-go basis, for £0.80 per hour. This can be data you upload yourself, data you collected from Twitter, or the results of a previous job.

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