Analyzing Word Frequency with Polyglot Library

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Code introduction


This function uses the Polyglot library to analyze the frequency of words in a given text and returns the most frequent words along with their frequencies.


Technology Stack : Polyglot, Text, downloader

Code Type : Function

Code Difficulty : Intermediate


                
                    
def random_word_frequency(text, language='en'):
    from polyglot.text import Text
    from polyglot.downloader import downloader

    # Download necessary models for the language
    downloader.download('embeddings2.en')
    downloader.download('dictionary2.en')

    # Create a Polyglot Text object
    polyglot_text = Text(text, hint_language_code=language)

    # Get the most frequent words
    frequent_words = polyglot_text.words.by_freq()

    # Return the most frequent words and their frequencies
    return {word: freq for word, freq in frequent_words.items()}