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Corpus

classv3
An annotated corpus

This class manages annotated corpora and can be used for training and development datasets in the DocBin (.spacy) format. To customize the data loading during training, you can register your own data readers and batchers. Also see the usage guide on data utilities for more details and examples.

Config and implementation

spacy.Corpus.v1 is a registered function that creates a Corpus of training or evaluation data. It takes the same arguments as the Corpus class and returns a callable that yields Example objects. You can replace it with your own registered function in the @readers registry to customize the data loading and streaming.

NameDescription
pathThe directory or filename to read from. Expects data in spaCy’s binary .spacy format. Path
gold_preprocWhether to set up the Example object with gold-standard sentences and tokens for the predictions. See Corpus for details. bool
max_lengthMaximum document length. Longer documents will be split into sentences, if sentence boundaries are available. Defaults to 0 for no limit. int
limitLimit corpus to a subset of examples, e.g. for debugging. Defaults to 0 for no limit. int
augmenterApply some simply data augmentation, where we replace tokens with variations. This is especially useful for punctuation and case replacement, to help generalize beyond corpora that don’t have smart-quotes, or only have smart quotes, etc. Defaults to None. Optional[Callable]
explosion/spaCy/master/spacy/training/corpus.py

Corpus.__init__ method

Create a Corpus for iterating Example objects from a file or directory of .spacy data files. The gold_preproc setting lets you specify whether to set up the Example object with gold-standard sentences and tokens for the predictions. Gold preprocessing helps the annotations align to the tokenization, and may result in sequences of more consistent length. However, it may reduce runtime accuracy due to train/test skew.

NameDescription
pathThe directory or filename to read from. Union[str,Path]
keyword-only
gold_preprocWhether to set up the Example object with gold-standard sentences and tokens for the predictions. Defaults to False. bool
max_lengthMaximum document length. Longer documents will be split into sentences, if sentence boundaries are available. Defaults to 0 for no limit. int
limitLimit corpus to a subset of examples, e.g. for debugging. Defaults to 0 for no limit. int
augmenterOptional data augmentation callback. Callable[[Language,Example], Iterable[Example]]
shuffleWhether to shuffle the examples. Defaults to False. bool

Corpus.__call__ method

Yield examples from the data.

NameDescription
nlpThe current nlp object. Language

JsonlCorpus class

Iterate Doc objects from a file or directory of JSONL (newline-delimited JSON) formatted raw text files. Can be used to read the raw text corpus for language model pretraining from a JSONL file.

Example

JsonlCorpus.__init__ method

Initialize the reader.

NameDescription
pathThe directory or filename to read from. Expects newline-delimited JSON with a key "text" for each record. Union[str,Path]
keyword-only
min_lengthMinimum document length (in tokens). Shorter documents will be skipped. Defaults to 0, which indicates no limit. int
max_lengthMaximum document length (in tokens). Longer documents will be skipped. Defaults to 0, which indicates no limit. int
limitLimit corpus to a subset of examples, e.g. for debugging. Defaults to 0 for no limit. int

JsonlCorpus.__call__ method

Yield examples from the data.

NameDescription
nlpThe current nlp object. Language

PlainTextCorpus classv3.5.1

Iterate over documents from a plain text file. Can be used to read the raw text corpus for language model pretraining. The expected file format is:

  • UTF-8 encoding
  • One document per line
  • Blank lines are ignored.

Example

PlainTextCorpus.__init__ method

Initialize the reader.

NameDescription
pathThe directory or filename to read from. Expects newline-delimited documents in UTF8 format. Union[str,Path]
keyword-only
min_lengthMinimum document length (in tokens). Shorter documents will be skipped. Defaults to 0, which indicates no limit. int
max_lengthMaximum document length (in tokens). Longer documents will be skipped. Defaults to 0, which indicates no limit. int

PlainTextCorpus.__call__ method

Yield examples from the data.

NameDescription
nlpThe current nlp object. Language