# Natural Language Toolkit: Classifier Utility Functions # # Copyright (C) 2001-2010 NLTK Project # Author: Edward Loper # Steven Bird (minor additions) # URL: # For license information, see LICENSE.TXT """ Utility functions and classes for classifiers. """ import math #from nltk.util import Deprecated import nltk.classify.util # for accuracy & log_likelihood from nltk.util import LazyMap ###################################################################### #{ Helper Functions ###################################################################### # alternative name possibility: 'map_featurefunc()'? # alternative name possibility: 'detect_features()'? # alternative name possibility: 'map_featuredetect()'? # or.. just have users use LazyMap directly? def apply_features(feature_func, toks, labeled=None): """ Use the L{LazyMap} class to construct a lazy list-like object that is analogous to C{map(feature_func, toks)}. In particular, if C{labeled=False}, then the returned list-like object's values are equal to:: [feature_func(tok) for tok in toks] If C{labeled=True}, then the returned list-like object's values are equal to:: [(feature_func(tok), label) for (tok, label) in toks] The primary purpose of this function is to avoid the memory overhead involved in storing all the featuresets for every token in a corpus. Instead, these featuresets are constructed lazily, as-needed. The reduction in memory overhead can be especially significant when the underlying list of tokens is itself lazy (as is the case with many corpus readers). @param feature_func: The function that will be applied to each token. It should return a featureset -- i.e., a C{dict} mapping feature names to feature values. @param toks: The list of tokens to which C{feature_func} should be applied. If C{labeled=True}, then the list elements will be passed directly to C{feature_func()}. If C{labeled=False}, then the list elements should be tuples C{(tok,label)}, and C{tok} will be passed to C{feature_func()}. @param labeled: If true, then C{toks} contains labeled tokens -- i.e., tuples of the form C{(tok, label)}. (Default: auto-detect based on types.) """ if labeled is None: labeled = toks and isinstance(toks[0], (tuple, list)) if labeled: def lazy_func(labeled_token): return (feature_func(labeled_token[0]), labeled_token[1]) return LazyMap(lazy_func, toks) else: return LazyMap(feature_func, toks) def attested_labels(tokens): """ @return: A list of all labels that are attested in the given list of tokens. @rtype: C{list} of (immutable) @param tokens: The list of classified tokens from which to extract labels. A classified token has the form C{(token, label)}. @type tokens: C{list} """ return tuple(set([label for (tok,label) in tokens])) def log_likelihood(classifier, gold): results = classifier.batch_prob_classify([fs for (fs,l) in gold]) ll = [pdist.prob(l) for ((fs,l), pdist) in zip(gold, results)] return math.log(float(sum(ll))/len(ll)) def accuracy(classifier, gold): results = classifier.batch_classify([fs for (fs,l) in gold]) correct = [l==r for ((fs,l), r) in zip(gold, results)] return float(sum(correct))/len(correct) class CutoffChecker(object): """ A helper class that implements cutoff checks based on number of iterations and log likelihood. Accuracy cutoffs are also implemented, but they're almost never a good idea to use. """ def __init__(self, cutoffs): self.cutoffs = cutoffs.copy() if 'min_ll' in cutoffs: cutoffs['min_ll'] = -abs(cutoffs['min_ll']) if 'min_lldelta' in cutoffs: cutoffs['min_lldelta'] = abs(cutoffs['min_lldelta']) self.ll = None self.acc = None self.iter = 1 def check(self, classifier, train_toks): cutoffs = self.cutoffs self.iter += 1 if 'max_iter' in cutoffs and self.iter >= cutoffs['max_iter']: return True # iteration cutoff. new_ll = nltk.classify.util.log_likelihood(classifier, train_toks) if math.isnan(new_ll): return True if 'min_ll' in cutoffs or 'min_lldelta' in cutoffs: if 'min_ll' in cutoffs and new_ll >= cutoffs['min_ll']: return True # log likelihood cutoff if ('min_lldelta' in cutoffs and self.ll and ((new_ll - self.ll) <= abs(cutoffs['min_lldelta']))): return True # log likelihood delta cutoff self.ll = new_ll if 'max_acc' in cutoffs or 'min_accdelta' in cutoffs: new_acc = nltk.classify.util.log_likelihood( classifier, train_toks) if 'max_acc' in cutoffs and new_acc >= cutoffs['max_acc']: return True # log likelihood cutoff if ('min_accdelta' in cutoffs and self.acc and ((new_acc - self.acc) <= abs(cutoffs['min_accdelta']))): return True # log likelihood delta cutoff self.acc = new_acc return False # no cutoff reached. ###################################################################### #{ Demos ###################################################################### def names_demo_features(name): features = {} features['alwayson'] = True features['startswith'] = name[0].lower() features['endswith'] = name[-1].lower() for letter in 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz': features['count(%s)' % letter] = name.lower().count(letter) features['has(%s)' % letter] = letter in name.lower() return features def binary_names_demo_features(name): features = {} features['alwayson'] = True features['startswith(vowel)'] = name[0].lower() in 'aeiouy' features['endswith(vowel)'] = name[-1].lower() in 'aeiouy' for letter in 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz': features['count(%s)' % letter] = name.lower().count(letter) features['has(%s)' % letter] = letter in name.lower() features['startswith(%s)' % letter] = (letter==name[0].lower()) features['endswith(%s)' % letter] = (letter==name[-1].lower()) return features def names_demo(trainer, features=names_demo_features): from nltk.corpus import names import random # Construct a list of classified names, using the names corpus. namelist = ([(name, 'male') for name in names.words('male.txt')] + [(name, 'female') for name in names.words('female.txt')]) # Randomly split the names into a test & train set. random.seed(123456) random.shuffle(namelist) train = namelist[:5000] test = namelist[5000:5500] # Train up a classifier. print 'Training classifier...' classifier = trainer( [(features(n), g) for (n,g) in train] ) # Run the classifier on the test data. print 'Testing classifier...' acc = accuracy(classifier, [(features(n),g) for (n,g) in test]) print 'Accuracy: %6.4f' % acc # For classifiers that can find probabilities, show the log # likelihood and some sample probability distributions. try: test_featuresets = [features(n) for (n,g) in test] pdists = classifier.batch_prob_classify(test_featuresets) ll = [pdist.logprob(gold) for ((name, gold), pdist) in zip(test, pdists)] print 'Avg. log likelihood: %6.4f' % (sum(ll)/len(test)) print print 'Unseen Names P(Male) P(Female)\n'+'-'*40 for ((name, gender), pdist) in zip(test, pdists)[:5]: if gender == 'male': fmt = ' %-15s *%6.4f %6.4f' else: fmt = ' %-15s %6.4f *%6.4f' print fmt % (name, pdist.prob('male'), pdist.prob('female')) except NotImplementedError: pass # Return the classifier return classifier _inst_cache = {} def wsd_demo(trainer, word, features, n=1000): from nltk.corpus import senseval import random # Get the instances. print 'Reading data...' global _inst_cache if word not in _inst_cache: _inst_cache[word] = [(i, i.senses[0]) for i in senseval.instances(word)] instances = _inst_cache[word][:] if n> len(instances): n = len(instances) senses = list(set(l for (i,l) in instances)) print ' Senses: ' + ' '.join(senses) # Randomly split the names into a test & train set. print 'Splitting into test & train...' random.seed(123456) random.shuffle(instances) train = instances[:int(.8*n)] test = instances[int(.8*n):n] # Train up a classifier. print 'Training classifier...' classifier = trainer( [(features(i), l) for (i,l) in train] ) # Run the classifier on the test data. print 'Testing classifier...' acc = accuracy(classifier, [(features(i),l) for (i,l) in test]) print 'Accuracy: %6.4f' % acc # For classifiers that can find probabilities, show the log # likelihood and some sample probability distributions. try: test_featuresets = [features(i) for (i,n) in test] pdists = classifier.batch_prob_classify(test_featuresets) ll = [pdist.logprob(gold) for ((name, gold), pdist) in zip(test, pdists)] print 'Avg. log likelihood: %6.4f' % (sum(ll)/len(test)) except NotImplementedError: pass # Return the classifier return classifier