spencermountain/compromise

Health v2 · maintenance only

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12161 stars · 668 forks observed · 2026-09-29

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Compromise is a lightweight JavaScript natural-language processing library that turns text into structured data, doing part-of-speech tagging and named-entity recognition in the browser or Node. It makes fast, sensible, limited parsing decisions rather than aiming for heavyweight linguistic accuracy.

Use cases

• extract names and places from text in the browser
• part-of-speech tag sentences in javascript
• parse user-generated text into structured data
• find dates and organizations in strings
• lightweight nlp without a server or ML model
• match patterns in english text

When to choose

• you need fast, dependency-free NLP in JavaScript for English text
• you want POS tagging or entity extraction that runs in the browser
• you prefer pragmatic, predictable parsing over heavyweight ML models

When to avoid

• you need high-accuracy NLP for languages other than English (community forks exist for some)
• you need deep dependency parsing or state-of-the-art transformer models
• you need multilingual support out of the box

Facets

library · maturity active

nlp parser developer-tools browser part-of-speech-tagging named-entity-recognition text-parsing lightweight natural-language-processing nodejs javascript

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