WatsonNLPWrapper

A ruby gem for easier use of IBM Watson's natural language processing API

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WatsonNLPWrapper

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rubygems.org/gems/WatsonNLPWrapper

This is a simple ruby wrapper implementation of IBM’s Watson Natural Language Understanding API which is used to analyze text to extract meta-data from content

Installation

Add this line to your application’s Gemfile:

gem 'WatsonNLPWrapper'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install WatsonNLPWrapper

Usage

# Require the library
require "WatsonNLPWrapper"

# Initialize
# Version parameter is not needed to be sent and by default is 2018-03-16
nlp = WatsonNLPWrapper::WatsonNLPApi.new('{url}', '{username}', '{password}', '{version}')

# Set sample text
text = '{sample text}'

# Call the analyze API with default features
# This will give a json response
nlp.analyze(text)

# If you want to enable specific features only and not the default features

features =
  {
    entities: {
      emotion: true,
      sentiment: true,
      limit: 2
    },
    keywords: {
      emotion: true,
      sentiment: true,
      limit: 2
    }
  }

nlp.analyze(text, features)

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/thededlier/WatsonNLPWrapper. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

Code of Conduct

Everyone interacting in the WatsonNLPWrapper project’s codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.