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# Natural Language Toolkit: Chunk parsing API
#
# Copyright (C) 2001-2020 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
##//////////////////////////////////////////////////////
## Chunk Parser Interface
##//////////////////////////////////////////////////////
from nltk.parse import ParserI
from nltk.chunk.util import ChunkScore
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.
"""
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()
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