Package nltk :: Package tag :: Module brill :: Class BrillTagger

Class BrillTagger

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                 BrillTagger

Brill's transformational rule-based tagger. Brill taggers use an initial tagger (such as tag.DefaultTagger) to assign an intial tag sequence to a text; and then apply an ordered list of transformational rules to correct the tags of individual tokens. These transformation rules are specified by the BrillRule interface.

Brill taggers can be created directly, from an initial tagger and a list of transformational rules; but more often, Brill taggers are created by learning rules from a training corpus, using either BrillTaggerTrainer or FastBrillTaggerTrainer.

Nested Classes

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Inherited from yaml.YAMLObject: __metaclass__, yaml_dumper, yaml_loader

Instance Methods

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__init__(self, initial_tagger, rules)
x.__init__(...) initializes x; see x.__class__.__doc__ for signature

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rules(self)

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list of (token, tag)

tag(self, tokens)
Determine the most appropriate tag sequence for the given token sequence, and return a corresponding list of tagged tokens.

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Inherited from api.TaggerI: batch_tag

Inherited from object: __delattr__, __getattribute__, __hash__, __new__, __reduce__, __reduce_ex__, __repr__, __setattr__, __str__

Class Methods

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Inherited from yaml.YAMLObject: from_yaml, to_yaml

Class Variables

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yaml_tag = '!nltk.BrillTagger'

Inherited from yaml.YAMLObject: yaml_flow_style

Properties

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Inherited from object: __class__

Method Details

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init(self, initial_tagger, rules)
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x.__init__(...) initializes x; see x.__class__.__doc__ for signature

Parameters:

initial_tagger (TaggerI) - The initial tagger
rules (list of BrillRule) - An ordered list of transformation rules that should be used to correct the initial tagging.

Overrides: object.__init__

tag(self, tokens)

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Determine the most appropriate tag sequence for the given token sequence, and return a corresponding list of tagged tokens. A tagged token is encoded as a tuple (token, tag).

Returns: list of (token, tag)
Overrides: api.TaggerI.tag: (inherited documentation)

Class BrillTagger

__init__(self, initial_tagger, rules) (Constructor)

tag(self, tokens)

init(self, initial_tagger, rules)
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