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    <section id="overview">
        <h2 class="section-title">Overview<a href="#"><i class="top-link fas fa-fw fa-angle-double-up"></i></a></h2>

        <p>
            {% scaladoc NCTokenParser NCTokenParser %} trait is part of <a href="api-components.html#model-pipeline">Model Pipeline</a>.
            Its implementation should parse user input plain text and split this text
            into <code>tokens</code> list.
            NLPCraft provides two English language token parser implementations:
            <a href="#parser-opennlp">Apache OpenNLP Based Parser</a> and
            <a href="#parser-stanford">Stanford NLP Based Parser</a>.
            Also, project contains examples for <a href="examples/light_switch_fr.html">French</a> and
            <a href="examples/light_switch_ru.html">Russia</a> languages token parser implementations.
        </p>

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    <section id="parser-opennlp">
        <h2 class="section-title">Apache OpenNLP Based Parser<a href="#"><i class="top-link fas fa-fw fa-angle-double-up"></i></a></h2>
        <p>
            There is {% scaladoc nlp/parsers/NCOpenNLPTokenParser NCOpenNLPTokenParser %} implementation.

            This implementation is wrapper on
            <a href="https://opennlp.apache.org/">Apache OpenNLP</a> project tokenizer.
            </p>
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    <section id="parser-stanford">
        <h2 class="section-title">Stanford NLP Based Parser<a href="#"><i class="top-link fas fa-fw fa-angle-double-up"></i></a></h2>
        <p>
            There is <code>NCStanfordNLPTokenParser</code> implementation.

            This implementation is wrapper on
            <a href="https://nlp.stanford.edu/">Stanford NLP</a> project tokenizer.
        </p>
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    <section id="remarks">
        <h2 class="section-title">Remarks<a href="#"><i class="top-link fas fa-fw fa-angle-double-up"></i></a></h2>

        <p>
            There are two different English language implementations are provided because they have some difference
            in their algorithms and can provide different list of tokens for same user text input.
            Some built-in components are required token parser instance as their parameter.
        </p>
        <ul>
            <li>
                If you use <a href="https://opennlp.apache.org/">Apache OpenNLP</a> based components
                you should use <a href="#parser-opennlp">Apache OpenNLP based parser</a> in your model pipeline.
            </li>
            <li>
                If you use <a href="https://nlp.stanford.edu/">Stanford NLP</a> based components
                you should use <a href="#parser-stanford">Stanford based parser</a> in your model pipeline.
            </li>
        </ul>
    </section>
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        <li class="side-nav-title">On This Page</li>
        <li><a href="#overview">Overview</a></li>
        <li><a href="#parser-opennlp">Apache OpenNLP Based Parser</a></li>
        <li><a href="#parser-stanford">Stanford NLP Based Parser</a></li>
        <li><a href="#remarks">Remarks</a></li>
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