Zensols Natural Language Parsing#

From the paper DeepZensols: A Deep Learning Natural Language Processing Framework for Experimentation and Reproducibility. This framework wraps the spaCy framework and creates light weight features in a class hierarchy that reflects the structure of natural language. The motivation is to generate features from the parsed text in an object oriented fashion that is fast and easy to pickle.

Other features include:

Parse and normalize a stream of tokens as stop words, punctuation filters, up/down casing, porter stemming and others.
Detached features that are safe and easy to pickle to disk.
Configuration drive parsing and token normalization using configuration factories.
Pretty print functionality for easy natural language feature selection.
A comprehensive scoring module including following scoring methods:
- Rouge
- Bleu
- SemEval-2013 Task 9.1
- Levenshtein distance
- Exact match

Documentation#

Obtaining / Installing#

The easiest way to install the command line program is via the pip installer. Since the package needs at least one spaCy module, the second command downloads the smallest model.

pip3 install --use-deprecated=legacy-resolver zensols.nlp
python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm

Binaries are also available on pypi.

Usage#

A parser using the default configuration can be obtained by:

from zensols.nlp import FeatureDocumentParser
parser: FeatureDocumentParser = FeatureDocumentParser.default_instance()
doc = parser('Obama was the 44th president of the United States.')
for tok in doc.tokens:
    print(tok.norm, tok.pos_, tok.tag_)
print(doc.entities)

>>>
Obama PROPN NNP
was AUX VBD
the DET DT
45th ADJ JJ
president NOUN NN
of ADP IN
the United States DET DT
. PUNCT .
(<Obama>, <45th>, <the United States>)

However, minimal effort is needed to configure the parser using a resource library:

from io import StringIO
from zensols.config import ImportIniConfig, ImportConfigFactory
from zensols.nlp import FeatureDocument, FeatureDocumentParser

CONFIG = """
# import the `zensols.nlp` library
[import]
config_file = resource(zensols.nlp): resources/obj.conf

# override the parse to keep only the norm, ent
[doc_parser]
token_feature_ids = set: ent_, tag_
"""

if (__name__ == '__main__'):
    fac = ImportConfigFactory(ImportIniConfig(StringIO(CONFIG)))
    doc_parser: FeatureDocumentParser = fac('doc_parser')
    sent = 'He was George Washington and first president of the United States.'
    doc: FeatureDocument = doc_parser(sent)
    for tok in doc.tokens:
        tok.write()

This uses a resource library to source in the configuration from this package so minimal configuration is necessary. More advanced configuration examples are also available.

See the feature documents for more information.

Scoring#

Certain scores in the scoring module need additional Python packages. These are installed with:

pip install -R src/python/requirements-score.txt

Attribution#

This project, or example code, uses:

spaCy for natural language parsing
msgpack and smart-open for Python disk serialization
nltk for the porter stemmer functionality

Citation#

If you use this project in your research please use the following BibTeX entry:

@inproceedings{landes-etal-2023-deepzensols,
    title = "{D}eep{Z}ensols: A Deep Learning Natural Language Processing Framework for Experimentation and Reproducibility",
    author = "Landes, Paul  and
      Di Eugenio, Barbara  and
      Caragea, Cornelia",
    editor = "Tan, Liling  and
      Milajevs, Dmitrijs  and
      Chauhan, Geeticka  and
      Gwinnup, Jeremy  and
      Rippeth, Elijah",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop for Natural Language Processing Open Source Software (NLP-OSS 2023)",
    month = dec,
    year = "2023",
    address = "Singapore, Singapore",
    publisher = "Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.nlposs-1.16",
    pages = "141--146"
}

Changelog#

An extensive changelog is available here.

Community#

Please star this repository and let me know how and where you use this API. Contributions as pull requests, feedback and any input is welcome.

License#

MIT License