[jira] Commented: (HIVE-1438) sentences() UDF for natural language tokenization

["Mayank Lahiri (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Mayank Lahiri commented on HIVE-1438:
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Patch available for code review. Implements the UDF as described.

> sentences() UDF for natural language tokenization
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>
>                 Key: HIVE-1438
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1438
>             Project: Hadoop Hive
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Query Processor
>    Affects Versions: 0.7.0
>            Reporter: Mayank Lahiri
>            Assignee: Mayank Lahiri
>             Fix For: 0.7.0
>
>         Attachments: HIVE-1438.1.patch
>
>
> Create a generic UDF that tokenizes free-form natural language text into sentences and words for more advanced processing, while stripping unnecessary punctuation and being fully international-aware. Fortunately, most of this functionality is already built into Java in the form of the i8n BreakIterator class, so this UDF will just connect it to Hive. For example:
> > SELECT sentences("Hello there! This is a UDF.") FROM somedata LIMIT 1;
> [ ["Hello", "there"], ["This", "is", "a", "UDF"] ]
> or
> > SELECT sentences("Je m'apelle hive!!!", "fr") FROM somedata LIMIT 1;
> [["Je","m'apelle","hive"]]
> Notice how punctuation is maintained only where appropriate. Breaking at sentences (and thus the nested array return type) is important for tasks like counting the frequency of n-grams in text, which should not cross sentence boundaries.

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