# Natural Language Toolkit: IEER Corpus Reader # # Copyright (C) 2001-2012 NLTK Project # Author: Steven Bird # Edward Loper # URL: # For license information, see LICENSE.TXT """ Corpus reader for the Information Extraction and Entity Recognition Corpus. NIST 1999 Information Extraction: Entity Recognition Evaluation http://www.itl.nist.gov/iad/894.01/tests/ie-er/er_99/er_99.htm This corpus contains the NEWSWIRE development test data for the NIST 1999 IE-ER Evaluation. The files were taken from the subdirectory: /ie_er_99/english/devtest/newswire/*.ref.nwt and filenames were shortened. The corpus contains the following files: APW_19980314, APW_19980424, APW_19980429, NYT_19980315, NYT_19980403, and NYT_19980407. """ import codecs import nltk from api import * from util import * #: A dictionary whose keys are the names of documents in this corpus; #: and whose values are descriptions of those documents' contents. titles = { 'APW_19980314': 'Associated Press Weekly, 14 March 1998', 'APW_19980424': 'Associated Press Weekly, 24 April 1998', 'APW_19980429': 'Associated Press Weekly, 29 April 1998', 'NYT_19980315': 'New York Times, 15 March 1998', 'NYT_19980403': 'New York Times, 3 April 1998', 'NYT_19980407': 'New York Times, 7 April 1998', } #: A list of all documents in this corpus. documents = sorted(titles) class IEERDocument: def __init__(self, text, docno=None, doctype=None, date_time=None, headline=''): self.text = text self.docno = docno self.doctype = doctype self.date_time = date_time self.headline = headline def __repr__(self): if self.headline: headline = ' '.join(self.headline.leaves()) else: headline = ' '.join([w for w in self.text.leaves() if w[:1] != '<'][:12])+'...' if self.docno is not None: return '' % (self.docno, headline) else: return '' % headline class IEERCorpusReader(CorpusReader): """ """ def raw(self, fileids=None): if fileids is None: fileids = self._fileids elif isinstance(fileids, basestring): fileids = [fileids] return concat([self.open(f).read() for f in fileids]) def docs(self, fileids=None): return concat([StreamBackedCorpusView(fileid, self._read_block, encoding=enc) for (fileid, enc) in self.abspaths(fileids, True)]) def parsed_docs(self, fileids=None): return concat([StreamBackedCorpusView(fileid, self._read_parsed_block, encoding=enc) for (fileid, enc) in self.abspaths(fileids, True)]) def _read_parsed_block(self,stream): # TODO: figure out while empty documents are being returned return [self._parse(doc) for doc in self._read_block(stream) if self._parse(doc).docno is not None] def _parse(self, doc): val = nltk.chunk.ieerstr2tree(doc, top_node="DOCUMENT") if isinstance(val, dict): return IEERDocument(**val) else: return IEERDocument(val) def _read_block(self, stream): out = [] # Skip any preamble. while True: line = stream.readline() if not line: break if line.strip() == '': break out.append(line) # Read the document while True: line = stream.readline() if not line: break out.append(line) if line.strip() == '': break # Return the document return ['\n'.join(out)]