# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
Wrapper for PyICU word segmentation. This wrapper module uses
:class:`icu.BreakIterator` with Thai as :class:`icu.Local`
to locate boundaries between words from the text.
:See Also:
* `GitHub repository <https://github.com/ovalhub/pyicu>`_
"""
import re
from typing import List
from icu import BreakIterator, Locale
def _gen_words(text: str) -> str:
bd = BreakIterator.createWordInstance(Locale("th"))
bd.setText(text)
p = bd.first()
for q in bd:
yield text[p:q]
p = q
[docs]def segment(text: str) -> List[str]:
"""
:param str text: text to be tokenized to words
:return: list of words, tokenized from the text
"""
if not text or not isinstance(text, str):
return []
text = re.sub("([^\u0E00-\u0E7F\n ]+)", " \\1 ", text)
return list(_gen_words(text))