Merge pull request #845 from BLKSerene/update_code_comments

Update code comments and clean up codes

Author: wannaphong

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -7,36 +7,36 @@ Please refer to our [Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct](https://github.com/Py
 ## Issue Report and Discussion
 
 - Discussion: https://github.com/PyThaiNLP/pythainlp/discussions
-- GitHub issues (problems and suggestions): https://github.com/PyThaiNLP/pythainlp/issues
-- Facebook group (not specific to PyThaiNLP, can be Thai NLP discussion in general): https://www.facebook.com/groups/thainlp
+- GitHub issues (for problems and suggestions): https://github.com/PyThaiNLP/pythainlp/issues
+- Facebook group (not specific to PyThaiNLP, for Thai NLP discussion in general): https://www.facebook.com/groups/thainlp
 
 
 ## Code
 
 ## Code Guidelines
 
-- Follows [PEP8](http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/), use [black](https://github.com/ambv/black) with `--line-length` = 79;
+- Follow [PEP8](http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/), use [black](https://github.com/ambv/black) with `--line-length` = 79;
 - Name identifiers (variables, classes, functions, module names) with meaningful
   and pronounceable names (`x` is always wrong);
   - Please follow this [naming convention](https://namingconvention.org/python/). For example, global constant variables must be in `ALL_CAPS`;
   <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/uBr10.png" />
-- Write tests for your new features. Test suites are in `tests/` directory. (see "Testing" section below);
+- Write tests for your new features. The test suite is in `tests/` directory. (see "Testing" section below);
 - Run all tests before pushing (just execute `tox`) so you will know if your
   changes broke something;
-- Commented code is [dead
-  code](http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/07/coding-without-comments.html);
+- Commented out codes are [dead
+  codes](http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/07/coding-without-comments.html);
 - All `#TODO` comments should be turned into [issues](https://github.com/pythainlp/pythainlp/issues) in GitHub;
-- When appropriate, use [f-String](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0498/)
+- When appropriate, use [f-string](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0498/)
   (use `f"{a} = {b}"`, instead of `"{} = {}".format(a, b)` and `"%s = %s' % (a, b)"`);
-- All text files, including source code, must be ended with one empty line. This is [to please git](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5813311/no-newline-at-end-of-file#5813359) and [to keep up with POSIX standard](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/729692/why-should-text-files-end-with-a-newline).
+- All text files, including source codes, must end with one empty line. This is [to please git](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5813311/no-newline-at-end-of-file#5813359) and [to keep up with POSIX standard](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/729692/why-should-text-files-end-with-a-newline).
 
 ### Version Control System
 
 - We use [Git](http://git-scm.com/) as our [version control system](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revision_control),
 so it may be a good idea to familiarize yourself with it.
 - You can start with the [Pro Git book](http://git-scm.com/book/) (free!).
 
-### Commit Comment
+### Commit Message
 
 - [How to Write a Git Commit Message](https://chris.beams.io/posts/git-commit/)
 - [Commit Verbs 101: why I like to use this and why you should also like it.](https://chris.beams.io/posts/git-commit/)
@@ -45,24 +45,24 @@ so it may be a good idea to familiarize yourself with it.
 
 - We use the famous [gitflow](http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/)
 to manage our branches.
-- When you do pull request on GitHub, Travis CI and AppVeyor will run tests
+- When you create pull requests on GitHub, Github Actions and AppVeyor will run tests
 and several checks automatically. Click the "Details" link at the end of
 each check to see what needs to be fixed.
 
 
 ## Documentation
 
 - We use [Sphinx](https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/) to generate API document
-automatically from "docstring" comments in source code. This means the comment
-section in the source code is important for the quality of documentation.
-- A docstring should start with one summary line, ended the line with a full stop (period),
-then followed by a blank line before the start new paragraph.
-- A commit to release branches (e.g. `2.2`, `2.1`) with a title **"(build and deploy docs)"** (without quotes) will trigger the system to rebuild the documentation files and upload them to the website https://pythainlp.github.io/docs
+automatically from "docstring" comments in source codes. This means the comment
+section in the source codes is important for the quality of documentation.
+- A docstring should start with one summary line, end with one line with a full stop (period),
+then be followed by a blank line before starting a new paragraph.
+- A commit to release branches (e.g. `2.2`, `2.1`) with a title **"(build and deploy docs)"** (without quotes) will trigger the system to rebuild the documentation files and upload them to the website https://pythainlp.github.io/docs.
 
 
 ## Testing
 
-We use standard Python `unittest`. Test suites are in `tests/` directory.
+We use standard Python `unittest`. The test suite is in `tests/` directory.
 
 To run unit tests locally together with code coverage test:
 
@@ -81,12 +81,12 @@ Generate code coverage test in HTML (files will be available in `htmlcov/` direc
 coverage html
 ```
 
-Make sure the same tests pass on Travis CI and AppVeyor.
+Make sure the tests pass on both Github Actions and AppVeyor.
 
 
 ## Releasing
 - We use [semantic versioning](https://semver.org/): MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH, with development build suffix: MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH-devBUILD
-- Use [`bumpversion`](https://github.com/c4urself/bump2version/#installation) to manage versioning.
+- We use [`bumpversion`](https://github.com/c4urself/bump2version/#installation) to manage versioning.
   - `bumpversion [major|minor|patch|release|build]`
   - Example:
   ```
@@ -129,18 +129,18 @@ Make sure the same tests pass on Travis CI and AppVeyor.
   <img src="https://contributors-img.firebaseapp.com/image?repo=PyThaiNLP/pythainlp" />
 </a>
 
-Thanks all the [contributors](https://github.com/PyThaiNLP/pythainlp/graphs/contributors). (Image made with [contributors-img](https://contributors-img.firebaseapp.com))
+Thanks to all [contributors](https://github.com/PyThaiNLP/pythainlp/graphs/contributors). (Image made with [contributors-img](https://contributors-img.firebaseapp.com))
 
-### Development Lead
-- Wannaphong Phatthiyaphaibun <[email protected]> - founder, distribution and maintainance
-- Korakot Chaovavanich - initial tokenization and soundex code
+### Development Leads
+- Wannaphong Phatthiyaphaibun <[email protected]> - foundation, distribution and maintenance
+- Korakot Chaovavanich - initial tokenization and soundex codes
 - Charin Polpanumas - classification and benchmarking
 - Peeradej Tanruangporn - documentation
-- Arthit Suriyawongkul - refactoring, packaging, distribution, and maintainance
+- Arthit Suriyawongkul - refactoring, packaging, distribution, and maintenance
 - Chakri Lowphansirikul - documentation
 - Pattarawat Chormai - benchmarking
-- Thanathip Suntorntip - nlpO3 maintainance, Rust Developer
-- Can Udomcharoenchaikit - documentation and code
+- Thanathip Suntorntip - nlpO3 maintenance, Rust Developer
+- Can Udomcharoenchaikit - documentation and codes
 
 ### Maintainers
 - Arthit Suriyawongkul

INTHEWILD.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 # Who uses PyThaiNLP?
 
-We'd like to keep track of who is using the package. Please send a PR with your company name or @githubhandle or company name with @githubhandle.
+We'd like to keep track of who are using the package. Please send a PR with your company name or @githubhandle or both company name and @githubhandle.
 
-Currently, officially using PyThaiNLP:
+Currently, those who are officially using PyThaiNLP are as follows:
 
 1. [Hope Data Annotations Co., Ltd.](https://hopedata.org) ([@hopedataannotations](https://github.com/hopedataannotaions))
 2. [Codustry (Thailand) Co., Ltd.](https://codustry.com) ([@codustry](https://github.com/codustry))

README.md

@@ -13,13 +13,13 @@
   <a href="https://matrix.to/#/#thainlp:matrix.org" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><img src="https://matrix.to/img/matrix-badge.svg" alt="Chat on Matrix"></a>
 </div>
 
-PyThaiNLP is a Python package for text processing and linguistic analysis, similar to [NLTK](https://www.nltk.org/) with focus on Thai language.
+PyThaiNLP is a Python package for text processing and linguistic analysis, similar to [NLTK](https://www.nltk.org/) with a focus on the Thai language.
 
 PyThaiNLP เป็นไลบารีภาษาไพทอนสำหรับประมวลผลภาษาธรรมชาติ คล้ายกับ NLTK โดยเน้นภาษาไทย [ดูรายละเอียดภาษาไทยได้ที่ README_TH.MD](https://github.com/PyThaiNLP/pythainlp/blob/dev/README_TH.md)
 
 **News**
 
-> Now, You can contact or ask any questions with the PyThaiNLP team. <a href="https://matrix.to/#/#thainlp:matrix.org" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><img src="https://matrix.to/img/matrix-badge.svg" alt="Chat on Matrix"></a>
+> Now, You can contact with or ask any questions of the PyThaiNLP team. <a href="https://matrix.to/#/#thainlp:matrix.org" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><img src="https://matrix.to/img/matrix-badge.svg" alt="Chat on Matrix"></a>
 
 | Version | Description | Status |
 |:------:|:--:|:------:|
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ PyThaiNLP เป็นไลบารีภาษาไพทอนสำหร
 
 ## Capabilities
 
-PyThaiNLP provides standard NLP functions for Thai, for example part-of-speech tagging, linguistic unit segmentation (syllable, word, or sentence). Some of these functions are also available via command-line interface.
+PyThaiNLP provides standard NLP functions for Thai, for example part-of-speech tagging, linguistic unit segmentation (syllable, word, or sentence). Some of these functions are also available via the command-line interface.
 
 <details>
   <summary>List of Features</summary>
@@ -48,11 +48,11 @@ PyThaiNLP provides standard NLP functions for Thai, for example part-of-speech t
 - Thai spelling suggestion and correction (`spell` and `correct`)
 - Thai transliteration (`transliterate`)
 - Thai soundex (`soundex`) with three engines (`lk82`, `udom83`, `metasound`)
-- Thai collation (sort by dictionary order) (`collate`)
+- Thai collation (sorted by dictionary order) (`collate`)
 - Read out number to Thai words (`bahttext`, `num_to_thaiword`)
 - Thai datetime formatting (`thai_strftime`)
 - Thai-English keyboard misswitched fix (`eng_to_thai`, `thai_to_eng`)
-- Command-line interface for basic functions, like tokenization and pos tagging (run `thainlp` in your shell)
+- Command-line interface for basic functions, like tokenization and POS tagging (run `thainlp` in your shell)
 </details>
 
 
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ This will install the latest stable release of PyThaiNLP.
 Install different releases:
 
 - Stable release: `pip install --upgrade pythainlp`
-- Pre-release (near ready): `pip install --upgrade --pre pythainlp`
+- Pre-release (nearly ready): `pip install --upgrade --pre pythainlp`
 - Development (likely to break things): `pip install https://github.com/PyThaiNLP/pythainlp/archive/dev.zip`
 
 ### Installation Options
@@ -92,27 +92,27 @@ pip install pythainlp[extra1,extra2,...]
 -  `wordnet` (for Thai WordNet API)
 </details>
 
-For dependency details, look at `extras` variable in [`setup.py`](https://github.com/PyThaiNLP/pythainlp/blob/dev/setup.py).
+For dependency details, look at the `extras` variable in [`setup.py`](https://github.com/PyThaiNLP/pythainlp/blob/dev/setup.py).
 
 
-## Data directory
+## Data Directory
 
-- Some additional data, like word lists and language models, may get automatically download during runtime.
+- Some additional data, like word lists and language models, may be automatically downloaded during runtime.
 - PyThaiNLP caches these data under the directory `~/pythainlp-data` by default.
-- Data directory can be changed by specifying the environment variable `PYTHAINLP_DATA_DIR`.
+- The data directory can be changed by specifying the environment variable `PYTHAINLP_DATA_DIR`.
 - See the data catalog (`db.json`) at https://github.com/PyThaiNLP/pythainlp-corpus
 
 
 ## Command-Line Interface
 
-Some of PyThaiNLP functionalities can be used at command line, using `thainlp` command.
+Some of PyThaiNLP functionalities can be used via command line with the `thainlp` command.
 
-For example, displaying a catalog of datasets:
+For example, to display a catalog of datasets:
 ```sh
 thainlp data catalog
 ```
 
-Showing how to use:
+To show how to use:
 ```sh
 thainlp help
 ```
@@ -122,16 +122,16 @@ thainlp help
 
 | | License |
 |:---|:----|
-| PyThaiNLP Source Code and Notebooks | [Apache Software License 2.0](https://github.com/PyThaiNLP/pythainlp/blob/dev/LICENSE) |
+| PyThaiNLP source codes and notebooks | [Apache Software License 2.0](https://github.com/PyThaiNLP/pythainlp/blob/dev/LICENSE) |
 | Corpora, datasets, and documentations created by PyThaiNLP | [Creative Commons Zero 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication License (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)|
 | Language models created by PyThaiNLP | [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-by)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)  |
-| Other corpora and models that may included with PyThaiNLP | See [Corpus License](https://github.com/PyThaiNLP/pythainlp/blob/dev/pythainlp/corpus/corpus_license.md) |
+| Other corpora and models that may be included in PyThaiNLP | See [Corpus License](https://github.com/PyThaiNLP/pythainlp/blob/dev/pythainlp/corpus/corpus_license.md) |
 
 
 ## Contribute to PyThaiNLP
 
-- Please do fork and create a pull request :)
-- For style guide and other information, including references to algorithms we use, please refer to our [contributing](https://github.com/PyThaiNLP/pythainlp/blob/dev/CONTRIBUTING.md) page.
+- Please fork and create a pull request :)
+- For style guides and other information, including references to algorithms we use, please refer to our [contributing](https://github.com/PyThaiNLP/pythainlp/blob/dev/CONTRIBUTING.md) page.
 
 ## Who uses PyThaiNLP?
 
@@ -140,13 +140,13 @@ You can read [INTHEWILD.md](https://github.com/PyThaiNLP/pythainlp/blob/dev/INTH
 
 ## Citations
 
-If you use `PyThaiNLP` in your project or publication, please cite the library as follows
+If you use `PyThaiNLP` in your project or publication, please cite the library as follows:
 
 ```
 Wannaphong Phatthiyaphaibun, Korakot Chaovavanich, Charin Polpanumas, Arthit Suriyawongkul, Lalita Lowphansirikul, & Pattarawat Chormai. (2016, Jun 27). PyThaiNLP: Thai Natural Language Processing in Python. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3519354
 ```
 
-or BibTeX entry:
+or by BibTeX entry:
 
 ``` bib
 @misc{pythainlp,
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ or BibTeX entry:
 | Logo | Description |
 | --- | ----------- |
 | [![VISTEC-depa Thailand Artificial Intelligence Research Institute](https://airesearch.in.th/assets/img/logo/airesearch-logo.svg)](https://airesearch.in.th/)   | Since 2019, our contributors Korakot Chaovavanich and Lalita Lowphansirikul have been supported by [VISTEC-depa Thailand Artificial Intelligence Research Institute](https://airesearch.in.th/).                 |
-| [![MacStadium](https://i.imgur.com/rKy1dJX.png)](https://www.macstadium.com)   | We get support free Mac Mini M1 from [MacStadium](https://www.macstadium.com) for doing Build CI.                  |
+| [![MacStadium](https://i.imgur.com/rKy1dJX.png)](https://www.macstadium.com)   | We get support of free Mac Mini M1 from [MacStadium](https://www.macstadium.com) for running CI builds.                  |
 
 ------
 
@@ -181,5 +181,5 @@ or BibTeX entry:
 </div>
 
 <div align="center">
-  <strong>Beware of malware if you use code from mirrors other than the official two at GitHub and GitLab.</strong>
+  <strong>Beware of malware if you use codes from mirrors other than the official two on GitHub and GitLab.</strong>
 </div>