# ============================================================================== # PROJECT: DEPRESSION-DETECTION-USING-TWEETS # AUTHORS: AMEY THAKUR & MEGA SATISH # GITHUB (AMEY): https://github.com/Amey-Thakur # GITHUB (MEGA): https://github.com/msatmod # REPOSITORY: https://github.com/Amey-Thakur/DEPRESSION-DETECTION-USING-TWEETS # RELEASE DATE: June 5, 2022 # LICENSE: MIT License # DESCRIPTION: Core NLP logic for cleaning and normalizing tweet text. # ============================================================================== import re import warnings import nltk import ftfy from nltk.stem import WordNetLemmatizer from nltk.corpus import stopwords # Suppression of non-critical warnings to ensure a streamlined algorithmic log warnings.filterwarnings("ignore") # Dictionary of standard English contractions for lexical expansion # This facilitates uniform tokenization by resolving ambiguous shorthand CONTRACTIONS_LIST = { "ain't": "am not", "aren't": "are not", "can't": "cannot", "can't've": "cannot have", "'cause": "because", "could've": "could have", "couldn't": "could not", "couldn't've": "could not have", "didn't": "did not", "doesn't": "does not", "don't": "do not", "hadn't": "had not", "hadn't've": "had not have", "hasn't": "has not", "haven't": "have not", "he'd": "he would", "he'd've": "he would have", "he'll": "he will", "he'll've": "he will have", "he's": "he is", "how'd": "how did", "how'd'y": "how do you", "how'll": "how will", "how's": "how is", "I'd": "I would", "I'd've": "I would have", "I'll": "I will", "I'll've": "I will have", "I'm": "I am", "I've": "I have", "isn't": "is not", "it'd": "it had", "it'd've": "it would have", "it'll": "it will", "it'll've": "it will have", "it's": "it is", "let's": "let us", "ma'am": "madam", "mayn't": "may not", "might've": "might have", "mightn't": "might not", "mightn't've": "might not have", "must've": "must have", "mustn't": "must not", "mustn't've": "must not have", "needn't": "need not", "needn't've": "need not have", "o'clock": "of the clock", "oughtn't": "ought not", "oughtn't've": "ought not have", "shan't": "shall not", "sha'n't": "shall not", "shan't've": "shall not have", "she'd": "she would", "she'd've": "she would have", "she'll": "she will", "she'll've": "she will have", "she's": "she is", "should've": "should have", "shouldn't": "should not", "shouldn't've": "should not have", "so've": "so have", "so's": "so is", "that'd": "that would", "that'd've": "that would have", "that's": "that is", "there'd": "there had", "there'd've": "there would have", "there's": "there is", "they'd": "they would", "they'd've": "they would have", "they'll": "they will", "they'll've": "they will have", "they're": "they are", "they've": "they have", "to've": "to have", "wasn't": "was not", "we'd": "we had", "we'd've": "we would have", "we'll": "we will", "we'll've": "we will have", "we're": "we are", "we've": "we have", "weren't": "were not", "what'll": "what will", "what'll've": "what will have", "what're": "what are", "what's": "what is", "what've": "what have", "when's": "when is", "when've": "when have", "where'd": "where did", "where's": "where is", "where've": "where have", "who'll": "who will", "who'll've": "who will have", "who's": "who is", "who've": "who have", "why's": "why is", "why've": "why have", "will've": "will have", "won't": "will not", "won't've": "will not have", "would've": "would have", "wouldn't": "would not", "wouldn't've": "would not have", "y'all": "you all", "y'alls": "you alls", "y'all'd": "you all would", "y'all'd've": "you all would have", "y'all're": "you all are", "y'all've": "you all have", "you'd": "you had", "you'd've": "you would have", "you'll": "you you will", "you'll've": "you you will have", "you're": "you are", "you've": "you have" } # Pre-compiled regular expression for efficient contraction matching CONTRACTIONS_RE = re.compile('(%s)' % '|'.join(CONTRACTIONS_LIST.keys())) def expand_contractions(text: str, contractions_re=CONTRACTIONS_RE) -> str: """ Identifies and replaces English contractions within the input text using a predefined mapping. Args: text (str): The raw text potentially containing contractions. contractions_re: Compiled regex pattern for matching contractions. Returns: str: Expanded lexical form of the input text. """ def replace(match): return CONTRACTIONS_LIST[match.group(0)] return contractions_re.sub(replace, text) def tweets_cleaner(tweet: str) -> str: """ Executes a comprehensive analytical pipeline for the linguistic normalization of microblogging content (Tweets). Analytical Methodology: 1. Case Normalization: Lowercasting to ensure uniformity. 2. Relevance Filtering: Exclusion of tweets consisting solely of URLs. 3. Noise Reduction: Removal of hashtags, mentions, and visual asset links. 4. Encoding Correction: Fixing malformed Unicode sequences (via ftfy). 5. Lexical Expansion: Resolution of linguistic contractions. 6. Punctuation Removal: Strategic elimination of non-alphanumeric noise. 7. Morphological Analysis: Removal of high-frequency stop words and application of WordNet-based lemmatization to reduce words to their base semantic roots. Args: tweet (str): Raw input tweet captured from the platform. Returns: str: Sanitized and normalized string ready for vectorization. """ # Phase 1: Case Uniformity tweet = tweet.lower() # Phase 2: Structural Relevance Check (Filtering out pure URL content) if re.match("(\w+:\/\/\S+)", tweet) is None: # Phase 3: Targeted entity removal (Handles Twitter-specific artifacts) tweet = ' '.join( re.sub( "(@[A-Za-z0-9]+)|(\#[A-Za-z0-9]+)|()|(pic\.twitter\.com\/.*)", " ", tweet ).split() ) # Phase 4: Resolution of malformed character encodings tweet = ftfy.fix_text(tweet) # Phase 5: Applied contraction expansion for token consistency tweet = expand_contractions(tweet) # Phase 6: Punctuation and non-essential character pruning tweet = ' '.join(re.sub("([^0-9A-Za-z \t])", " ", tweet).split()) # Phase 7: Stop-word filtration and Lemmatization # Methodology: Reducing inflectional forms to a common base word (Lemma) stop_words_set = set(stopwords.words('english')) tokens = nltk.word_tokenize(tweet) lemmatizer_engine = WordNetLemmatizer() filtered_lexicon = [ lemmatizer_engine.lemmatize(word) for word in tokens if word not in stop_words_set ] # Phase 8: Re-assembly of the normalized semantic string tweet = ' '.join(filtered_lexicon) return tweet