Source code for nltk.chunk.api

# Natural Language Toolkit: Chunk parsing API
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# Copyright (C) 2001-2015 NLTK Project
# Author: Edward Loper <edloper@gmail.com>
#         Steven Bird <stevenbird1@gmail.com> (minor additions)
# URL: <http://nltk.org/>
# For license information, see LICENSE.TXT

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##  Chunk Parser Interface
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from nltk.parse import ParserI

from nltk.chunk.util import ChunkScore

[docs]class ChunkParserI(ParserI): """ A processing interface for identifying non-overlapping groups in unrestricted text. Typically, chunk parsers are used to find base syntactic constituents, such as base noun phrases. Unlike ``ParserI``, ``ChunkParserI`` guarantees that the ``parse()`` method will always generate a parse. """
[docs] def parse(self, tokens): """ Return the best chunk structure for the given tokens and return a tree. :param tokens: The list of (word, tag) tokens to be chunked. :type tokens: list(tuple) :rtype: Tree """ raise NotImplementedError()
[docs] def evaluate(self, gold): """ Score the accuracy of the chunker against the gold standard. Remove the chunking the gold standard text, rechunk it using the chunker, and return a ``ChunkScore`` object reflecting the performance of this chunk peraser. :type gold: list(Tree) :param gold: The list of chunked sentences to score the chunker on. :rtype: ChunkScore """ chunkscore = ChunkScore() for correct in gold: chunkscore.score(correct, self.parse(correct.leaves())) return chunkscore