# @nlpjs/lang-it

> Core

Latest version **5.0.0-alpha.5** (published 2025-01-23) · MIT license · 0 weekly downloads

## Install

```sh
npm install @nlpjs/lang-it
pnpm add @nlpjs/lang-it
yarn add @nlpjs/lang-it
bun add @nlpjs/lang-it
```

## Health

**Score 25/100 (F)** — status: maintenance-mode.

Positive: no vulnerabilities.

Warnings: low downloads; no types; no esm support.

Negative: stale; low maintenance score.

## Facts

| | |
|---|---|
| Version | 5.0.0-alpha.5 |
| Published | 2025-01-23 |
| First published | 2019-11-19 |
| Weekly downloads | 0 |
| License | MIT |
| TypeScript types | none |
| Module format | CommonJS |
| Dependencies | 1 |
| Unpacked size | 86.2 KB |
| Known vulnerabilities | 0 |
| Install scripts | no |
| GitHub stars | 6586 |
| Author | Jesus Seijas |
| Maintainers | dgarcia56, ericzon, xavier-redondo |

## Links

- npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@nlpjs/lang-it
- Repository: https://github.com/axa-group/nlp.js
- Issues: https://github.com/axa-group/nlp.js/issues
- npm.io page: https://npm.io/package/@nlpjs/lang-it

## Dependencies (1)

- [@nlpjs/core](https://npm.io/package/@nlpjs/core.md) ^5.0.0-alpha.5

## Recent versions

- 5.0.0-alpha.5 (latest) — 2025-01-23
- 4.26.1 — 2023-01-12
- 4.25.0 — 2022-12-21
- 4.23.4 — 2022-03-28
- 4.22.7 — 2022-01-04
- 4.22.6 — 2022-01-04
- 4.22.5 — 2022-01-03
- 4.22.0 — 2021-03-25
- 4.21.1 — 2021-02-17
- 4.19.1 — 2021-01-18
- 4.17.0 — 2020-11-30
- 4.14.3 — 2020-10-27
- 4.14.0 — 2020-10-11
- 4.13.1 — 2020-10-05
- 4.13.0 — 2020-10-05
- … 25 more at https://npm.io/package/@nlpjs/lang-it/versions

## README

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# @nlpjs/lang-it

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## TABLE OF CONTENTS

<!--ts-->

- [Installation](#installation)
- [Normalization](#normalization)
- [Tokenization](#tokenization)
- [Identify if a word is an italian stopword](#identify-if-a-word-is-an-italian-stopword)
- [Remove stopwords from an array of words](#remove-stopwords-from-an-array-of-words)
- [Change the stopwords dictionary](#change-the-stopwords-dictionary)
- [Stemming word by word](#stemming-word-by-word)
- [Stemming an array of words](#stemming-an-array-of-words)
- [Normalizing, Tokenizing and Stemming a sentence](#normalizing-tokenizing-and-stemming-a-sentence)
- [Remove stopwords when stemming a sentence](#remove-stopwords-when-stemming-a-sentence)
- [Sentiment Analysis](#sentiment-analysis)
- [Example of usage on a classifier](#example-of-usage-on-a-classifier)
- [Contributing](#contributing)
- [Contributors](#contributors)
- [Code of Conduct](#code-of-conduct)
- [Who is behind it](#who-is-behind-it)
- [License](#license.md)
  <!--te-->

## Installation

You can install @nlpjs/lang-it:

```bash
    npm install @nlpjs/lang-it
```

## Normalization

Normalization of a text converts it to lowercase and remove decorations of characters.
 
```javascript
const { NormalizerIt } = require('@nlpjs/lang-it');

const normalizer = new NormalizerIt();
const input = 'Questo dòvrebbe essere normalizzato';
const result = normalizer.normalize(input);
console.log(result);
// output: questo dovrebbe essere normalizzato
```

## Tokenization

Tokenization splits a sentence into words.

```javascript
const { TokenizerIt } = require('@nlpjs/lang-it');

const tokenizer = new TokenizerIt();
const input = 'Questo dovrebbe essere tokenizzato';
const result = tokenizer.tokenize(input);
console.log(result);
// output: [ 'Questo', 'dovrebbe', 'essere', 'tokenizzato' ]
```

Tokenizer can also normalize the sentence before tokenizing, to do that provide a _true_ as second argument to the method _tokenize_

```javascript
const { TokenizerIt } = require('@nlpjs/lang-it');

const tokenizer = new TokenizerIt();
const input = 'Questo dovrebbe essere tokenizzato';
const result = tokenizer.tokenize(input, true);
console.log(result);
// output: [ 'questo', 'dovrebbe', 'essere', 'tokenizzato' ]
```

## Identify if a word is an italian stopword

Using the class _StopwordsIt_ you can identify if a word is an stopword:

```javascript
const { StopwordsIt } = require('@nlpjs/lang-it');

const stopwords = new StopwordsIt();
console.log(stopwords.isStopword('uno'));
// output: true
console.log(stopwords.isStopword('sviluppatore'));
// output: false
```

## Remove stopwords from an array of words

Using the class _StopwordsIt_ you can remove stopwords form an array of words:

```javascript
const { StopwordsIt } = require('@nlpjs/lang-it');

const stopwords = new StopwordsIt();
console.log(stopwords.removeStopwords(['ho', 'visto', 'uno', 'sviluppatore']));
// output: [ 'visto', 'sviluppatore' ]
```

## Change the stopwords dictionary
Using the class _StopwordsIt_ you can restart it dictionary and build it from another set of words:

```javascript
const { StopwordsIt } = require('@nlpjs/lang-it');

const stopwords = new StopwordsIt();
stopwords.dictionary = {};
stopwords.build(['ho', 'visto']);
console.log(stopwords.removeStopwords(['ho', 'visto', 'uno', 'sviluppatore']));
// output: [ 'uno', 'sviluppatore' ]
```

## Stemming word by word

An stemmer is an algorithm to calculate the _stem_ (root) of a word, removing affixes. 

You can stem one word using method _stemWord_:

```javascript
const { StemmerIt } = require('@nlpjs/lang-it');

const stemmer = new StemmerIt();
const input = 'svilupp';
console.log(stemmer.stemWord(input));
// output: program
```

## Stemming an array of words

You can stem an array of words using method _stem_:

```javascript
const { StemmerIt } = require('@nlpjs/lang-it');

const stemmer = new StemmerIt();
const input = ['ho', 'visto', 'uno', 'sviluppatore'];
console.log(stemmer.stem(input));
// outuput: [ 'ho', 'vist', 'uno', 'svilupp' ]
```

## Normalizing, Tokenizing and Stemming a sentence

As you can see, stemmer does not do internal normalization, so words with uppercases will remain uppercased. 
Also, stemmer works with lowercased affixes, so _sviluppatore_ will be stemmed as _svilupp_ but _SVILUPPATORE_ will not be changed.

You can tokenize and stem a sentence, including normalization, with the method _tokenizeAndStem_:

```javascript
const { StemmerIt } = require('@nlpjs/lang-it');

const stemmer = new StemmerIt();
const input = 'Ho visto uno SVILUPPATORE';
console.log(stemmer.tokenizeAndStem(input));
// output: [ 'ho', 'vist', 'uno', 'svilupp' ]
```

## Remove stopwords when stemming a sentence

When calling _tokenizeAndStem_ method from the class _StemmerIt_, the second parameter is a boolean to set if the stemmer must keep the stopwords (true) or remove them (false). Before using it, the stopwords instance must be set into the stemmer:

```javascript
const { StemmerIt, StopwordsIt } = require('@nlpjs/lang-it');

const stemmer = new StemmerIt();
stemmer.stopwords = new StopwordsIt();
const input = 'Ho visto uno sviluppatore';
console.log(stemmer.tokenizeAndStem(input, false));
// output: [ 'vist', 'svilupp' ]
```

## Sentiment Analysis

To use sentiment analysis you'll need to create a new _Container_ and use the plugin _LangIt_, because internally the _SentimentAnalyzer_ class try to retrieve the normalizer, tokenizer, stemmmer and sentiment dictionaries from the container.

```javascript
const { Container } = require('@nlpjs/core');
const { SentimentAnalyzer } = require('@nlpjs/sentiment');
const { LangIt } = require('@nlpjs/lang-it');

(async () => {
  const container = new Container();
  container.use(LangIt);
  const sentiment = new SentimentAnalyzer({ container });
  const result = await sentiment.process({
    locale: 'it',
    text: 'amore per i gatti',
  });
  console.log(result.sentiment);
})();
// output:
// {
//   score: 0.25,
//   numWords: 4,
//   numHits: 2,
//   average: 0.0625,
//   type: 'pattern',
//   locale: 'it',
//   vote: 'positive'
// }
```

The output of the sentiment analysis includes:
- *score*: final score of the sentence. 
- *numWords*: total words of the sentence.
- *numHits*: total words of the sentence identified as having a sentiment score.
- *average*: score divided by numWords
- *type*: type of dictionary used, values can be afinn, senticon or pattern.
- *locale*: locale of the sentence
- *vote*: positive if score greater than 0, negative if score lower than 0, neutral if score equals 0.

## Example of usage on a classifier

```javascript
const { containerBootstrap } = require('@nlpjs/core');
const { Nlp } = require('@nlpjs/nlp');
const { LangIt } = require('@nlpjs/lang-it');

(async () => {
  const container = await containerBootstrap();
  container.use(Nlp);
  container.use(LangIt);
  const nlp = container.get('nlp');
  nlp.settings.autoSave = false;
  nlp.addLanguage('it');
  // Adds the utterances and intents for the NLP
  nlp.addDocument('it', 'Addio per ora', 'greetings.bye');
  nlp.addDocument('it', 'arrivederci e stai attento', 'greetings.bye');
  nlp.addDocument('it', 'molto bene a dopo', 'greetings.bye');
  nlp.addDocument('it', 'devo andare', 'greetings.bye');
  nlp.addDocument('it', 'ciao', 'greetings.hello');
  
  // Train also the NLG
  nlp.addAnswer('it', 'greetings.bye', 'fino alla prossima volta');
  nlp.addAnswer('it', 'greetings.bye', 'A presto!');
  nlp.addAnswer('it', 'greetings.hello', 'Ciao, come stai');
  nlp.addAnswer('it', 'greetings.hello', 'Saluti!');
  await nlp.train();
  const response = await nlp.process('it', 'devo andare');
  console.log(response);
})();
```

## Contributing

You can read the guide of how to contribute at [Contributing](../../CONTRIBUTING.md).

## Contributors

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## Code of Conduct

You can read the Code of Conduct at [Code of Conduct](../../CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md).

## Who is behind it`?`

This project is developed by AXA Group Operations Spain S.A.

If you need to contact us, you can do it at the email opensource@axa.com

## License

Copyright (c) AXA Group Operations Spain S.A.

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a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
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