RiTa - a software toolkit for computational literature

Reference

Class

RiTa

Name

tokenize
Description Tokenizes a string (into words) according to the Penn Treebank conventions.
Example 

sentence = "The doctors treated dogs.";
words = RiTa.tokenize(sentence);
words = RiTa.tokenize(sentence, { regex: "\\s" });
Parameters
Stringthe input
Object
(or Map in Java)		options (optional) the relevant options for the function:

{boolean} options.splitContractions:
Convert contractions (e.g., "I'd" or "she'll") into multiple individual tokens

{String or Regex} options.regex:
Customized regex for the tokenization
Returns
String[]Array in which each element is a single token (generally a word or single punctuation character)
Related RiTa.tokens()
RiTa.untokenize()
RiTa.SPLIT_CONTRACTIONS
boolean to globally control the splitting of contractions (e.g. splitting "I'd" or "she'll") into multiple individual tokens), default=false.
Syntax 
RiTa.tokenize(text);
RiTa.tokenize(text, options);
Platform Java / JavaScript