NAME

String::Normal - Transform strings into a normal form.

SYNOPSIS

use String::Normal;

my $normalizer = String::Normal->new( type => 'business' );
print $normalizer->transform( 'Jones & Sons Bakeries' );     # bakeri jone son

$normalizer = String::Normal->new( type => 'address' );
print $normalizer->transform( '123 Main Street Suite A47' ); # 123 main st

$normalizer = String::Normal->new( type => 'phone' );
print $normalizer->transform( '(818) 423-7750' );            # 8184237750

$normalizer = String::Normal->new( type => 'city' );
print $normalizer->transform( 'Los Angeles' );               # los angeles

$normalizer = String::Normal->new( type => 'state' );
print $normalizer->transform( 'California' );                # ca

$normalizer = String::Normal->new( type => 'zip' );
print $normalizer->transform( '90292' );                     # 90292

CLI TOOLS

• normalizer

  Quickly transform values without writing a script:

  $ normalizer --value='Jones & Sons Bakeries'
  
  $ normalizer --value='Los Angeles' --type='city'
  
  $ normalizer --file=addresses.txt --type=address

DESCRIPTION

THIS MODULE IS AN ALPHA RELEASE!

Normalize your strings. Consider:

Bary & Sons' Bakery
Bary's & Sons Bakeries
Bary's and Sons' Bakeries

These are business names as potentialy found in business listings. When each of these values is passed to transform() the return value will be "bakeri bari son." This is accomplished by a number of transformation rules, found in the respective Type class:

• String::Normal::Type::Business

  Rules for business name listings, such as "Bary's Bakery"

• String::Normal::Type::Address

  Rules for business address listings, such as "123 Main Street Suite A"

• String::Normal::Type::City

  Rules for names of cities.

• String::Normal::Type::State

  Rules for US and Canadian state codes.

• String::Normal::Type::Zip

  Rules for US and Canadian zip codes.

• String::Normal::Type::Phone

  Rules for US area and exchange phone codes.

• String::Normal::Type::Title

  Rules for movie, film and television show titles.

The movitation for such transformation is to identify duplicates when combining multiple digest feeds into a master feed. This transformation (called normalization here) was designed with the need to identify and match duplicate business listings, but can be used to match duplicated from other sources as well, such as movie, film and television show titles.

Each type uses data found in a respective Config class:

• String::Normal::Config::BusinessStop

  Contains stop words to be removed from business names.

• String::Normal::Config::BusinessStem

  Stem words are transformed into some normal form, business types use Lingua::Stem with some customizations.

• String::Normal::Config::BusinessCompress

  Compress words are combined into one word. Consider:

  K*Mart
  K-Mart
  K Mart
  Kmart

  These are all "compressed" into the value kmart.

• String::Normal::Config::AddressStop

  Contains stop words to be removed from addresses.

• String::Normal::Config::AddressStem

  Transforms into some normal form, but does use Lingua::Stem.

• String::Normal::Config::State

  Valide US and Canadian state codes.

• String::Normal::Config::AreaCodes

  Valid US area codes.

• String::Normal::Config::TitleStop

  Contains stop words to be removed from titles.

• String::Normal::Config::TitleStem

  Transforms into some normal form, but does use Lingua::Stem.

All Config classes can be overriden by specifying your own custom text files. See new() below:

METHODS

new( %params )

my $normalizer = String::Normal->new;

Constructs object. Accepts the following named parameters:

• type

  Available types: business, address, phone, city, state, zip and title. Defaults to business.

  my $normalizer = String::Normal->new( type => 'title' );

transform( $word )

my $scalar = $normalizer->transform( 'Alien 1979 1080p.avi' );

Normalizes word based on given type.

AUTHOR

Jeff Anderson, <jeffa at cpan.org>

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

Documentation is currently light and needs to be expanded.

Please report any bugs or feature requests to either:

• Email: bug-string-normal at rt.cpan.org

• Web: http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=String-Normal

I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc String::Normal

The Github project is https://github.com/jeffa/String-Normal

You can also look for information at:

• RT: CPAN's request tracker (report bugs here) http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=String-Normal

• AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation http://annocpan.org/dist/String-Normal

• CPAN Ratings http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/String-Normal

• Search CPAN http://search.cpan.org/dist/String-Normal/

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The following people contributed algorithms and strategies in addition to the author. Thank you very much! :)

• Gauthier Groult

• Christophe Louvion

• Virginie Louvion

• Ana Martinez

• Ray Toal

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2016 Jeff Anderson.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the the Artistic License (2.0). You may obtain a copy of the full license at:

http://www.perlfoundation.org/artistic_license_2_0

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cpanm String::Normal

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install String::Normal