LibGuides: Rust for the Humanities: Sample Projects

Sample Projects

While not commonly used for humanities projects, Rust's speed and emphasis on memory safety makes it a great choice to consider depending on your project's needs. The projects and resources listed below provide examples to help you think through possible uses for the language in your own applications.

Rust Readability
A package to assess the complexity of texts using a variety of well-established readability formulas written in Rust. The package includes implementations of the Lix, Rix, Flesch, Flesch-Kincaid, Linsear Write, Coleman-Liau, and Automated Readability Index methods.
Rust Lemmatizer
A lemmatizing package written in Rust.
Rust Stylometry
A package to perform stylometry operations on given texts, written in Rust. The package includes implementations of Mendenhall's graphing of word lengths, the Kilgariff chi-squared algorithm, and an algorithm to find words that occur in only one text out of two being compared (hapax legomena).
Curated List of Projects on GitHub
A curated list of Rust code and resources hosted on GitHub.
Viterbi POS Tagger
An implementation of the Viterbi algorithm for part-of-speech (POS) tagging in Rust with no external dependencies.
Whatlang-rs
A natural language detection library for Rust. You can try a demo online at this link: https://whatlang.org/
Atomic-server
An open source headless CMS / real-time database. Powerful table editor, full-text search, and SDKs for JS / React / Svelte.