# Natural Language Toolkit: PP Attachment Corpus Reader # # Copyright (C) 2001-2012 NLTK Project # Author: Steven Bird # Edward Loper # URL: # For license information, see LICENSE.TXT """ Read lines from the Prepositional Phrase Attachment Corpus. The PP Attachment Corpus contains several files having the format: sentence_id verb noun1 preposition noun2 attachment For example: 42960 gives authority to administration V 46742 gives inventors of microchip N The PP attachment is to the verb phrase (V) or noun phrase (N), i.e.: (VP gives (NP authority) (PP to administration)) (VP gives (NP inventors (PP of microchip))) The corpus contains the following files: training: training set devset: development test set, used for algorithm development. test: test set, used to report results bitstrings: word classes derived from Mutual Information Clustering for the Wall Street Journal. Ratnaparkhi, Adwait (1994). A Maximum Entropy Model for Prepositional Phrase Attachment. Proceedings of the ARPA Human Language Technology Conference. [http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~adwait/papers/hlt94.ps] The PP Attachment Corpus is distributed with NLTK with the permission of the author. """ import codecs from util import * from api import * class PPAttachment: def __init__(self, sent, verb, noun1, prep, noun2, attachment): self.sent = sent self.verb = verb self.noun1 = noun1 self.prep = prep self.noun2 = noun2 self.attachment = attachment def __repr__(self): return ('PPAttachment(sent=%r, verb=%r, noun1=%r, prep=%r, ' 'noun2=%r, attachment=%r)' % (self.sent, self.verb, self.noun1, self.prep, self.noun2, self.attachment)) class PPAttachmentCorpusReader(CorpusReader): """ sentence_id verb noun1 preposition noun2 attachment """ def attachments(self, fileids): return concat([StreamBackedCorpusView(fileid, self._read_obj_block, encoding=enc) for (fileid, enc) in self.abspaths(fileids, True)]) def tuples(self, fileids): return concat([StreamBackedCorpusView(fileid, self._read_tuple_block, encoding=enc) for (fileid, enc) in self.abspaths(fileids, True)]) 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 _read_tuple_block(self, stream): line = stream.readline() if line: return [tuple(line.split())] else: return [] def _read_obj_block(self, stream): line = stream.readline() if line: return [PPAttachment(*line.split())] else: return []