From 42df49133d5a2152e7d0eb02cd7884c4579660be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Honnibal <honnibal+gh@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 21:54:51 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Also lower-case in orth variants

---
 spacy/gold.pyx | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/spacy/gold.pyx b/spacy/gold.pyx
index 4eaea80ed..b684c470c 100644
--- a/spacy/gold.pyx
+++ b/spacy/gold.pyx
@@ -272,12 +272,17 @@ class GoldCorpus(object):
 def make_orth_variants(nlp, raw, paragraph_tuples, orth_variant_level=0.0):
     if random.random() >= orth_variant_level:
         return raw, paragraph_tuples
+    if random.random() >= 0.5:
+        lower = True
+        raw = raw.lower()
     ndsv = nlp.Defaults.single_orth_variants
     ndpv = nlp.Defaults.paired_orth_variants
     # modify words in paragraph_tuples
     variant_paragraph_tuples = []
     for sent_tuples, brackets in paragraph_tuples:
         ids, words, tags, heads, labels, ner = sent_tuples
+        if lower:
+            words = [w.lower() for w in words]
         # single variants
         punct_choices = [random.choice(x["variants"]) for x in ndsv]
         for word_idx in range(len(words)):