[Question] Can winkjs expand contractions and abbreviations ?

[searleser97]

I see from the documentation that we can detect whether a token is a contraction or an abbreviation, but, Is there a way to expand either of them?

[sanjayaksaxena]

Contractions are automatically expanded, when you access the normal:

const winkNLP = require( 'wink-nlp' );
const its = require( 'wink-nlp/src/its.js' );
// Use web model for RunKit.
const model = require( 'wink-eng-lite-web-model' );
const nlp = winkNLP( model );

const text = `I couldn't eat.`;
const doc = nlp.readDoc( text );
// Print tokens.
console.log( doc.tokens().out() );
// -> ["I", "could", "n't", "eat", "."]
console.log( doc.tokens().out( its.contractionFlag ) );
// -> [false, true, true, false, false]
console.log( doc.tokens().out( its.normal ) );
// -> ["i", "could", "not", "eat", "."] 
// Notice the expanded form.

Abbreviations are only detected and are not expanded. You may like to use JS Object to maintain a table of expanded forms.