What it does
LTP (Language Technology Platform) is a set of tools for processing Chinese text. Its README is in Chinese.
It handles six basic tasks: splitting text into words (Chinese is written without spaces), labelling parts of speech, finding names of people, places and organisations, and three kinds of sentence and meaning analysis.
It is developed by a research centre at Harbin Institute of Technology. It offers fast, lighter models written in Rust and fuller deep learning models, which download automatically from Hugging Face.
Who it's for
Developers and researchers working with Chinese-language text.
Can I use it without coding?
Developers only. It is a Python and Rust library used by writing code. New to this? Start here.
Can I run it?
- Cost
- FreeNothing to pay or sign up for.
- Computer
- An ordinary computer is fine
- Privacy
- Runs on your own device: your data stays with you
- API key
- Not needed
Try it
Using Claude Code, Cursor or another AI coding assistant? Paste the prompt and it will walk you through the setup.New to this?
Before you install
- Only download from the official GitHub page. Copies with similar names exist for many popular projects.
- No standard license listed. Check the GitHub page before using it for business.
- More on staying safe
Where people are talking about it
- N-LTP: An Open-source Neural Language Technology Platform for ChineseResearch paper · Nov 2021