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NLP Toolkit Guide

by wentorai in wentorai/research-plugins

NLP analysis with perplexity scoring, burstiness, and entropy metrics

MITAuto-check passedAI & LLM Engineering

Install NLP Toolkit Guide

skills CLI
$ npx skills add wentorai/research-plugins --skill nlp-toolkit-guide -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install wentorai/research-plugins nlp-toolkit-guide --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wentorai/research-plugins.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/domains/ai-ml/nlp-toolkit-guide .claude/skills/nlp-toolkit-guide && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

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Facts

Skill name
nlp-toolkit-guide
GitHub stars
298
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~2.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
320 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
405
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

NLP analysis with perplexity scoring, burstiness, and entropy metrics

  • Tasks that involve Natural language processing
  • SKILL.md covers Overview, Perplexity Scoring, Burstiness Analysis and Entropy and…, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Tasks that involve Web search

What it does

NLP Toolkit Guide is an agent skill from wentorai/research-plugins. NLP analysis with perplexity scoring, burstiness, and entropy metrics

Its SKILL.md is about 2.3k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in AI & LLM Engineering, covering Natural language processing and Web search. It works with Perplexity. The repository describes itself as: 350+ academic research skills, MCP configs, and plugins for Research-Claw and AI agents. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Natural language processing
  • Tasks that involve Web search

Example prompts

  • “/nlp-toolkit-guide”

Requirements

  • Python 3

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit bf44b3c. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are python).

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

    • huggingface.co
    • arxiv.org
    • doi.org
    • nltk.org
    • spacy.io

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

NLP Toolkit Guide loads about 2.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 22 tokens; SKILL.md has 320 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~22
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2.3k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

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SKILL.md

The full file from wentorai/research-plugins at commit bf44b3c, republished under its MIT licence (© wentorai). 320 words, ~2,330 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/nlp-toolkit-guide/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
nlp-toolkit-guide
description
NLP analysis with perplexity scoring, burstiness, and entropy metrics

NLP Toolkit Guide

Overview

Natural Language Processing research requires a diverse set of analytical tools beyond standard model training. Text quality assessment, AI-generated text detection, linguistic feature extraction, and corpus analysis all depend on well-understood metrics: perplexity, burstiness, entropy, and their variants.

This guide provides practical implementations of these core NLP metrics alongside patterns for tokenization, embedding analysis, and text feature engineering. The focus is on metrics used in active research areas -- AI text detection (perplexity + burstiness classifiers), information-theoretic analysis of corpora, and linguistic diversity measurement.

These tools are framework-agnostic where possible, but leverage Hugging Face Transformers for language model operations and standard Python scientific computing libraries for statistical analysis.

Perplexity Scoring

Perplexity measures how well a language model predicts a text. Lower perplexity means the text is more predictable to the model -- a key signal in AI text detection, model evaluation, and domain adaptation.

python
import torch
import numpy as np
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

def compute_perplexity(text: str, model_name: str = "gpt2") -> dict:
    """
    Compute token-level and text-level perplexity using a causal LM.

    Returns:
        dict with 'perplexity', 'log_likelihood', 'token_perplexities'
    """
    tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name)
    model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(model_name)
    model.eval()

    encodings = tokenizer(text, return_tensors="pt", truncation=True, max_length=1024)
    input_ids = encodings.input_ids

    with torch.no_grad():
        outputs = model(input_ids, labels=input_ids)
        neg_log_likelihood = outputs.loss.item()

    # Token-level perplexities for analysis
    with torch.no_grad():
        logits = outputs.logits[:, :-1, :]  # Shift for next-token prediction
        targets = input_ids[:, 1:]
        log_probs = torch.log_softmax(logits, dim=-1)
        token_log_probs = log_probs.gather(2, targets.unsqueeze(-1)).squeeze(-1)
        token_perplexities = torch.exp(-token_log_probs).squeeze().tolist()

    perplexity = np.exp(neg_log_likelihood)

    return {
        "perplexity": perplexity,
        "log_likelihood": -neg_log_likelihood,
        "token_perplexities": token_perplexities,
        "num_tokens": input_ids.size(1),
    }

Burstiness Analysis

Burstiness measures the tendency of words to appear in clusters rather than uniformly across a text. Human writing tends to be "burstier" -- once a topic is introduced, related terms cluster together, then disappear.

python
from collections import Counter
import numpy as np

def compute_burstiness(text: str, min_freq: int = 2) -> dict:
    """
    Compute burstiness score for a text.

    Burstiness B = (sigma - mu) / (sigma + mu)
    where sigma and mu are the std dev and mean of inter-arrival times.
    B ranges from -1 (periodic) to 1 (bursty). Human text typically B > 0.
    """
    words = text.lower().split()
    word_positions = {}
    for i, word in enumerate(words):
        word_positions.setdefault(word, []).append(i)

    burstiness_scores = {}
    for word, positions in word_positions.items():
        if len(positions) < min_freq:
            continue
        inter_arrivals = np.diff(positions)
        mu = np.mean(inter_arrivals)
        sigma = np.std(inter_arrivals)
        if mu + sigma == 0:
            burstiness_scores[word] = 0.0
        else:
            burstiness_scores[word] = (sigma - mu) / (sigma + mu)

    # Aggregate burstiness
    if burstiness_scores:
        avg_burstiness = np.mean(list(burstiness_scores.values()))
    else:
        avg_burstiness = 0.0

    return {
        "average_burstiness": avg_burstiness,
        "word_burstiness": burstiness_scores,
        "num_words_analyzed": len(burstiness_scores),
    }

Entropy and Information-Theoretic Metrics

python
from collections import Counter
import numpy as np

def compute_entropy(text: str, level: str = "word") -> dict:
    """
    Compute Shannon entropy at word or character level.

    Higher entropy indicates more diverse, less predictable text.
    AI-generated text often has lower entropy than human text.
    """
    if level == "word":
        tokens = text.lower().split()
    elif level == "character":
        tokens = list(text.lower())
    else:
        raise ValueError("level must be 'word' or 'character'")

    counts = Counter(tokens)
    total = sum(counts.values())
    probabilities = np.array([c / total for c in counts.values()])

    entropy = -np.sum(probabilities * np.log2(probabilities + 1e-12))
    max_entropy = np.log2(len(counts)) if len(counts) > 1 else 1.0
    normalized_entropy = entropy / max_entropy

    return {
        "entropy": entropy,
        "normalized_entropy": normalized_entropy,
        "vocabulary_size": len(counts),
        "total_tokens": total,
        "type_token_ratio": len(counts) / total,
    }

def compute_conditional_entropy(text: str, n: int = 2) -> float:
    """Compute conditional entropy H(X_n | X_{n-1}) for n-gram analysis."""
    words = text.lower().split()
    if len(words) < n:
        return 0.0

    ngrams = [tuple(words[i:i+n]) for i in range(len(words) - n + 1)]
    contexts = [ng[:-1] for ng in ngrams]

    context_counts = Counter(contexts)
    ngram_counts = Counter(ngrams)

    h = 0.0
    total = len(ngrams)
    for ngram, count in ngram_counts.items():
        context = ngram[:-1]
        p_ngram = count / total
        p_context = context_counts[context] / total
        h -= p_ngram * np.log2(count / context_counts[context] + 1e-12)

    return h

AI Text Detection Pipeline

Combining perplexity, burstiness, and entropy into a detection pipeline:

python
def analyze_text_authenticity(text: str) -> dict:
    """
    Multi-signal analysis for AI vs. human text classification.
    Uses perplexity, burstiness, and entropy as features.
    """
    perplexity_result = compute_perplexity(text)
    burstiness_result = compute_burstiness(text)
    entropy_result = compute_entropy(text, level="word")
    char_entropy = compute_entropy(text, level="character")

    # Heuristic thresholds from literature
    signals = {
        "low_perplexity": perplexity_result["perplexity"] < 30,
        "low_burstiness": burstiness_result["average_burstiness"] < 0.1,
        "low_entropy": entropy_result["normalized_entropy"] < 0.7,
        "uniform_token_ppl": np.std(perplexity_result["token_perplexities"]) < 5,
    }

    ai_score = sum(signals.values()) / len(signals)

    return {
        "perplexity": perplexity_result["perplexity"],
        "burstiness": burstiness_result["average_burstiness"],
        "word_entropy": entropy_result["entropy"],
        "char_entropy": char_entropy["entropy"],
        "type_token_ratio": entropy_result["type_token_ratio"],
        "ai_likelihood_score": ai_score,
        "signals": signals,
    }

Tokenization Patterns

python
from transformers import AutoTokenizer

def compare_tokenizers(text: str, models: list = None) -> dict:
    """Compare tokenization across different models for research analysis."""
    if models is None:
        models = ["gpt2", "bert-base-uncased", "facebook/opt-1.3b"]

    results = {}
    for model_name in models:
        tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name)
        tokens = tokenizer.tokenize(text)
        results[model_name] = {
            "num_tokens": len(tokens),
            "tokens": tokens[:50],  # First 50 for inspection
            "vocab_size": tokenizer.vocab_size,
            "compression_ratio": len(text) / len(tokens),
        }
    return results

Best Practices

  • Always specify the model when computing perplexity. Perplexity is model-relative, not absolute.
  • Normalize by text length when comparing entropy across texts of different sizes.
  • Use sliding windows for long documents to capture local variation in metrics.
  • Combine multiple signals for AI text detection -- no single metric is reliable alone.
  • Report confidence intervals by computing metrics on paragraph-level chunks, then aggregating.
  • Be aware of domain shift. Perplexity thresholds trained on news text will not transfer to scientific papers.

References

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Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/domains/ai-ml/nlp-toolkit-guide of wentorai/research-plugins.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit bf44b3c

Used in 1 other repository

We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in wentorai/research-plugins, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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Questions about NLP Toolkit Guide

What does NLP Toolkit Guide do?

NLP analysis with perplexity scoring, burstiness, and entropy metrics. NLP Toolkit Guide is an agent skill from wentorai/research-plugins.

When should I use NLP Toolkit Guide?

NLP Toolkit Guide fits situations like: tasks that involve Natural language processing; tasks that involve Web search.

How do I install NLP Toolkit Guide in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add wentorai/research-plugins --skill nlp-toolkit-guide -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/domains/ai-ml/nlp-toolkit-guide in wentorai/research-plugins) into .claude/skills/nlp-toolkit-guide in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install NLP Toolkit Guide in Codex?

Run `npx skills add wentorai/research-plugins --skill nlp-toolkit-guide -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/domains/ai-ml/nlp-toolkit-guide in wentorai/research-plugins) into .agents/skills/nlp-toolkit-guide in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use NLP Toolkit Guide in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add wentorai/research-plugins --skill nlp-toolkit-guide -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/nlp-toolkit-guide, .gemini/skills/nlp-toolkit-guide, .github/skills/nlp-toolkit-guide and .opencode/skills/nlp-toolkit-guide in your project.

What does NLP Toolkit Guide need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: NLP Toolkit Guide is instructions for the agent only. Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does NLP Toolkit Guide access the network?

SKILL.md names 5 domains. As links in the text: huggingface.co, arxiv.org, doi.org, nltk.org and spacy.io. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is NLP Toolkit Guide safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does NLP Toolkit Guide use?

NLP Toolkit Guide is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does NLP Toolkit Guide use?

About 2.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 9.3k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains NLP Toolkit Guide?

wentorai (a GitHub user) maintains it in wentorai/research-plugins, which has 298 GitHub stars. The repository holds 405 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on June 19, 2026.

Source: wentorai/research-plugins on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.