BookNLP is a powerful natural language processing pipeline tailored for analyzing books and long documents in English. Its multifaceted functionalities include part-of-speech tagging, dependency parsing, and named entity recognition, among others. In this guide, we will walk through the steps to get you started using BookNLP effectively.

Step-by-Step Guide to Using BookNLP

Preliminaries

Before diving into the actual processing of your documents, you must download some external jar files. Unfortunately, these files are too large for GitHub’s file size limit, so follow these steps:

• Download and unzip the Stanford CoreNLP package.
• Copy stanford-corenlp-4.1.0-models.jar into the lib folder in your current working directory.

Running BookNLP

Next, you can run the BookNLP pipeline from the command line. Here’s an example command:

.runjava novels.BookNLP -doc data/originalTexts/dickens.oliver.pg730.txt -printHTML -p data/output/dickens -tok data/tokens/dickens.oliver.tokens -f

Imagine BookNLP as a diligent librarian, meticulously cataloging books. In this analogy, your input file is the book being processed, the output files are the organized shelves, and the various flags you set control how the librarian works—whether they annotate drafts or categorize quotes. Just as a librarian utilizes many tools, BookNLP uses various NLP techniques to dissect and analyze literature.

Parameter Breakdown

• -doc: Specifies the path to the original text to be processed.
• -tok: Indicates where to save processed tokens.
• -printHTML: Outputs results in HTML format.
• -p: Designates where to write diagnostic output files.
• -f: Forces syntactic processing, even if processed tokens exist.

Understanding the Output

The main output file, located at data/tokens/dickens.oliver.tokens, consists of original text along with various annotations such as part-of-speech tags and named entity recognition. The format of the output includes:

1. Paragraph ID
2. Sentence ID
3. Token ID
4. Byte start
5. Byte end
6. Whitespace following the token
7. Syntactic head ID
8. Original token
9. Normalized token
10. Lemma
11. Penn Treebank POS tag
12. NER tag
13. Dependency label
14. Quotation label
15. Character ID
16. Supersense tag

Troubleshooting

As with any complex system, you might run into issues while working with BookNLP. Here are some troubleshooting ideas:

• If you encounter output errors, ensure that the paths you provided are correct and that the directories exist.
• Performance issues might occur if the specified files are too large; consider breaking down your input texts into smaller sections.
• For errors related to Java or jar files, ensure Java is correctly installed and that all necessary jar files are in the correct directories.

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Advanced Modifications

If you wish to modify the code, install apache ant and run the following command to compile:

ant

Training Coreference

To improve coreference resolution, you need annotated data available in the coref directory. Here’s how to train a new coreference model:

.runjava novels.training.TrainCoref -training coref/annotatedData.txt -o corefweights.txt

This command uses the annotated training data to generate a new set of weights for coreference resolution.

Conclusion

In summary, BookNLP is a robust tool for analyzing large text documents, offering various NLP functionalities that can deepen your understanding of literature. Through careful preparation, execution, and troubleshooting, you will harness the full potential of this pipeline.

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